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Revista Mal Estar e Subjetividade

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CASADORE, Marcos Mariani  and  HASHIMOTO, Francisco. Considerations about the establishment of contemporary interpersonal affective bonds. Rev. Mal-Estar Subj [online]. 2012, vol.12, n.1-2, pp.177-204. ISSN 1518-6148.

In studies about the subjectivation process in contemporaneity and the social context in which one is inserted nowadays, the contemporary world is often characterized by the ascension of the narcissism - or individualism - and consumerism as a baseline to all other recent changes. The excessive valorization of aesthetics; the influence of media and marketing and the culture of image; the loss of the "inner side" and inter-human interchanges; against the exacerbation of the superficial and external, appear as essential transformations to the new configuration of the so called "post-modern" subjectivation process, privileged and reinforced by capitalist society. Next to them, exists an individual discontent - a malaise in the individual's life - usually associated to an interior emptiness and general dissatisfaction in face of idealizations and self-esteem fluctuations. This work tries to understand how individuals establish affective bonds and social relationships in this contemporary context, connecting the contemporary context and relevant concepts to this study, including the idea of romantic love, narcissism and the "state of helplessness" in psychoanalysis, subject's development and a parallel discussion with social-historical texts. The study, of a theoretical character, is located in the intersection between "individual" and "society" - a subjectivity, therefore, formed internally, within the individual, and submitted directly to social influence - and analyzes the determinants and influences that they exert upon one and another, based on critical-reflective readings and textual analysis of works in the fields of sociology, psychosociology and psychoanalysis.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; contemporary world; interpersonal relationships; narcissism; helplessness.

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