Intimacy: The Shared Part of Me (Annals of Cultural Psychology) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1648029000 ISBN 13: 9781648029004

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

The concept of intimacy puts forth important challenges to contemporary cultural psychology. Intimacy refers to a felt experience of interiority that although is intuitively comprehensible, does not have rigorously defined limits. Intimacy can refer to a content, an object, a person, ownership, or even a part of one’s own body. A potentially problematic issue for cultural psychology is that acknowledging intimacy seems to bound the Self to areas disjointed from the social sphere. In a globalized world, we witness a developmental process where social life becomes sectioned, where people are involved in an identity search by foregrounding certain social roles. With this backdrop in mind, people redefine and rebuild their intimacy spaces and the ways they roam from these to the public and collective realm. Exploring the current historical situation leads us to consider intimacy as culture in the making; certainly, in the way it manifests itself, but particularly in how we approach and understand it. The lived (experienced) dimension of intimacy becomes truly important, since it casts new light on what we mean by intimacy in different spheres of the self’s life, as well as life with others.

About this title

About the Author

María Elisa Molina, Universidad del Desarrollo,

Carlos Cornejo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Giuseppina Marsico, University of Salerno

Jaan Valsiner, Aalborg University

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1648029000
• ISBN 13: 9781648029004
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Molina María Elisa, Cornejo Carlos, Marsico Giuseppina, Valsiner Jaan