Fwd: NOVELLA-CNR postgraduate research seminar, October 9: Women's narratives of love

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>Graduate Seminars in Narrative
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>The Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London and
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>the NOVELLA ESRC Research Node, Institute of Education and UEL
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>Women's narratives of love
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>Elis Chasan, University of East London
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>Tuesday October 9th, 5.00-6.30
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>The Library, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, 
>University of London,  27-8 Woburn Square, London WC1H OAA
>
>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.
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>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?
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>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
>ascribes to their difficulty.
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>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'.
>
>
>All welcome, especially graduate students.  For further details 
>contact Corinne Squire (c.squire at uel.ac.uk 
><mailto:c.squire at uel.ac.uk> ) or Rowena Lamb (r.lamb at ioe.ac.uk 
><mailto:r.lamb at ioe.ac.uk>  ). Details are also on the CNR website: 
>http://www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/home.htm <http://www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/home.htm>
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