Abstract

CRISTINA O. CARRETEIRO, Teresa  and  MONTEIRO MATTAR, Cristine. Traces of romantic love and conjugal violence: an analysis based on the kidnapping of bus 499. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.2, pp. 153-170. ISSN 1677-1168.

This is an analysis of conjugal violence based on a fact of great repercussion in the press: the kidnapping of a bus in Rio de Janeiro. Following the news on various newspapers in the State, one notices that, as the fact is presented, the analysis focuses on ways of interpreting it in the perspective of private life, with emphasis on the romantic ideal of love, as well as of public life, with the need of institutional intervention on violence. Some months after the rupture with violence, through conjugal separation and institutional intervention, the couple reappeared on the headlines, this time to announce their reconciliation motivated by love. This path points out all the complexity and ambivalence of the phenomenon, preventing us from using ready-made formulas in our attempt to understand it.

Keywords : Woman; Conjugal violence; Romantic Love; The private; The public.

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