Loving bonds in young adults: ruptures and separations

• Grant number: 15/25129-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2016
• End date: December 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Mary Yoko Okamoto
• Grantee: Isabella Torqueti Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Loving relationships and the search for a partner permeate people's lives troughout their journey, interfering directly in its subjectivity. However, cultural and social changes that were caused by the postmodern age have affected those choices, shifting people's priorities and causing several loving ruptures and frustrations. For this reason, the current paper intends to investigate the notion of single young adults who are college students of the Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" of Assis' campus, that have already been through any kind of loving rupture. This project also intends to look into how these students experience and comprehend the loving ruptures and separations. Furthermore, it aims to analyze the impacts caused by going through such experience, looking to understand what has generated the rupture and how the person has dealed with it. The data collection will be done through semi-structured interviews which will be recorded and subsequently, transcribed. The data will be analyzed according to the content analysis considering the regularities and singularities of the speeches. The data discussion and interpretation will be done according to the psychoanalytic theory.