Intimacy - The Shared Part of Me (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Information Age Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Annals of Cultural Psychology
Release date:	April 2022
Editors:	Maria Elisa Molina • Carlos Cornejo • Giuseppina Marsico • Jaan Valsiner
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	238
ISBN-13:	978-1-64802-900-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > Popular psychology > Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem
LSN:	1-64802-900-0
Barcode:	9781648029004

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