Vínculo conjugal: entre o individualismo e a busca pelo outro um estudo qualitativo

Abstract

This currently work envolves the delicate game that exists on marriage between individuality, personal satisfaction and couple relationship. The research had a qualitative study with two couples with five years of relationship and a third one with fifty-five years of marriage. Resources from both psychology (mainly Jungian) and sociology were used to analyze the relationship as a complex and multi-faceted reality, which involves the subject in a global experiment, including the personal and the couple identity, emotions, chores, professional and religious activities. The marriage, therefore, covers two individuals and only one conjugal life; two distinct human beings with a history of life and one way of seeing the world that come together with a couple relationship. These husbands and wives now have to learn the art of coexistence through the daily activities of the dialogues and relations of donation (GOUDBOUT, 1999, MUZIO, 2002, 2004, PETRINI, 2006, 2007). Thus, there is in individuality not only the weaken aspect of marriage, as indicated by authors such as Bauman (2001, 2004) and Giddens (1993), but it also carries the mark of the personal characteristic that brings peculiarity to the intimate relationship, and the search for freedom and pleasure of being together.