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</font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=4>Graduate
Seminars in Narrative<br><br>
The Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London and
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the NOVELLA ESRC Research Node, Institute of Education and UEL<br><br>
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Women's narratives of love<br><br>
Elis Chasan, University of East London<br><br>
Tuesday October 9th, 5.00-6.30<br><br>
The Library, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education,
University of London, 27-8 Woburn Square, London WC1H OAA<br><br>
Over the last fifteen years, an increasing number of women have been
looking for help to control their sex and love lives when diagnosing
themselves sex and or love addicts. One of the places these women
turn to for help is the organisation Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, an
off-shoot of Alcoholics Anonymous (SLAA). Since I started
researching sex and love addiction anonymous in 2010, I can count a 57
per cent increase in the number of Sex and Love Addiction recovery groups
in London in 2010. <br><br>
What is leading this increase? Are we experiencing a new psychosocial
phenomenon? What forces are driving women to associate with a label
that implies such a lack of agency as addiction suggests? Is the
increase of sex and love addiction one of the consequences of the
transformation of intimacy (Giddens, 2008), that is, is the moving from
the patriarchal era of fixed identities to a more fluid era of sexual
equality being somehow resisted by an acting out of old stereotypes
(women and love, men and sex) ? Is the increase of the groups of SLAA
related to the fact that we live in a therapeutic culture (Richards,
2007) in which there is a emotionalisation of culture and a search for
self-fulfilment? What ideals of love are present in our historical
moment? What sense are women making of their failure of their love?
Is there anybody being blamed? <br><br>
These are some of the question that I intend to explore using a
psychosocial approach informed by psychoanalysis. The investigation
will consist of theoretical analysis followed by the analysis of
narrative interviews with women who diagnose themselves as 'sex and love
addicts'. The interviews have no fixed format. Instead each
interviewee is invited to narrate their difficulties in intimate
relations, an attempt is made to understand which forces may be behind
their discourse and what is the meaning each interviewee<br>
ascribes to their difficulty. <br><br>
Elis Chasan is a Brazilian psychologist and holds a master's degree on
Psychoanalytical Studies from the Tavistock Institute. She is
currently training in psychoanalysis at CFAR (Centre for Freudian
Analysis and Research) and studying for a PhD at University of East
London on the subject of 'Sex and Love Addiction and Femininity'.
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All welcome, especially graduate students. For further details
contact Corinne Squire (c.squire@uel.ac.uk
<<a href="mailto:c.squire@uel.ac.uk" eudora="autourl">
mailto:c.squire@uel.ac.uk</a>> ) or Rowena Lamb (r.lamb@ioe.ac.uk
<<a href="mailto:r.lamb@ioe.ac.uk%3E%A0" eudora="autourl">
mailto:r.lamb@ioe.ac.uk> </a> ). Details are also on the CNR website:
<a href="http://www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/home.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/home.htm</a>
<<a href="http://www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/home.htm" eudora="autourl">
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