Escolhas Narcísicas de Objeto e Relações Amorosas na Atualidade

Abstract

The present study sought to understand the subjectivity involving the choices and the love relationships of the present time. Psychoanalysis was used as theoretical support in order to understand the subjectivity of the subjects involved in the research. Throughout this journey, the family relationships were taken as the fundamental aspect in the process of psychosexual development and, consequently in the dynamic of choices and love relationships of the subject. The conflicts which surround the family relationship can be elaborated in an identification process and may influence the kind of love choices the subject makes in his adult life. Nowadays, the expectations regarding intimacy are different, there are non-traditional kinds of relationships, different life styles and new family arrangements enable different kinds of choices, including being single. Clinical interviews were carried out with each one of the 10 subjects participating in the research. The material gathered points to a lack or inadequacy of the parental model, which results in a precarious identification, leading to narcissistic object choice making it difficult to establish links. Work and professional life are displayed as a priority over a life with a partner and the marriage comes out as a non-value. The subject s discourses were marked by the work market instability, professional dissatisfaction and difficulties towards female autonomy. The results lead to believe that a new subjectivity is required by the changes of contemporary times.