Concept Of Intimacy Research Articles

Intimacy as a competency: information-seeking practices in (marriage) migration online support groups

This article explores the use of online social networks for seeking and sharing information about marriage migration. In Europe, since the 1990s, this migration has faced heightened scrutiny. Laws and administrative practices have added complexity to immigration procedures. Manifold screening methods gauge the authenticity of relationships aligning with the host nation’s concept of a suitable family for integration. In this context, informal self-help groups emerged to offer support to those facing burdensome formalities and local administrative intricacies. Based on extensive qualitative fieldwork, this article examines the significance of these support groups, drawing on the concept of intimacy as a shared competency. Here, intimacy is conceived as an active relational skill that counterbalances the limitations of migration policies. The analysis transcends the division between online and offline modes of living, shedding new light on intimacy and extimité – the sharing of one’s intimate self with others for validation – in doing family.

Good normative parenting: towards a non-teleological and relational ideal

ABSTRACT Parenting seems to be continually in the spotlight for political and social commentators. Meanwhile academic and practitioner work on children and child welfare explores how parents can best deliver for children as what parents do is seen as the route to a happy and successful childhood and future adulthood. This theoretical paper argues that a focus on outcomes for children has led to the role of parents being overstated and its significance mischaracterized. The paper contends that good parenting should not be judged in terms of child outcomes either in the present or future and, therefore, that focusing all attention on which aspects of children’s wellbeing should be prioritized is misguided. Instead, it proposes that good parenting is better understood as a form of relationship centred around the concepts of intimacy, care, and equality; and unpacks some of the implications of this shift in approach.

Techno-Social Experiences of Privacy and Intimacy in College Culture

This work considers the contemporary intersections of intimacy, technology, and privacy among college students in the US. This article outlines a framework for shifting social meanings and theorizes some potential implications. This project includes data from two primary field sites, a private university in the northeast and a public college in the southeast. I used a combination of face-to-face interviews and online ethnographic data collection methods for this project. Findings from this study indicate that while the concepts of intimacy and privacy remain fundamentally important to participants, the definitions of such concepts and their relationship with one another are being changed by communication technologies. Increasingly, young adults are defining privacy as the experience of managing their digital identity and understanding intimacy as being potentially disconnected from shared exchanges of private information. However, these ideas are in transition, and still deeply contested by participants.

Intimacies of the Common: Enclosure, Solidarity, and the Possibilities of Critical Publicity under Capitalism

ABSTRACT This essay places rhetorical theories of publicity and the common in conversation around the concept of intimacy. Defined as a felt sense of proximity or closeness, intimacy is a form of affective relation that underlies both private and public worldmaking practices, and that produces investments in certain forms of life and community. Considering the relationship between publicity and the common in terms of intimacy makes clear that dominant forms of contemporary publicity are predicated on racialized and gendered enclosures of intimacy that have dispossessed noncapitalist relationships to land and community and instead fostered intimacies conducive to capital accumulation. Our argument suggests that critical scholars who are concerned with contemporary capitalism’s subjection of life to the market have a common interest in attending to the ways these histories of enclosure shape the horizons of modern publicity. Our argument also suggests further attention be directed to forms of counterintimacy aimed at producing anticapitalist coalition.

An isomorphism identification method of kinematic chain based on optimal arrangement and comparison of branch-chain matrix derived from dendrogram graph

Isomorphism identification is an essential step in the structure synthesis of Kinematic Chain (KC), and needs a large amount of analysis and calculation. To find an isomorphism identification method with simple rules, scientific feasibility and less analysis and calculation has always been a research hotspot of mechanism scholars. In this paper, the structure information of KC is described by dendrogram structure graph with multiple joints, and Branch-chain Matrix (BM) is separated from the dendrogram structure. The characteristics of BM are analyzed, and the concepts of intimacy between branch-chains and Repeatability Matrix (RM) corresponding to BM are proposed. Based on fact that both dendrogram graph and BM can uniquely determine the structural information of one KC, a new isomorphism identification method for KC, based on row optimal rearrangement and comparison of BM, is proposed. The operation steps are discussed in detail, and several cases are analyzed to show this method has advantages such as easy rules, small calculation of retrieval and comparison, and easy to be programmed.

The girlfriend getaway as an intimacy

The girlfriend getaway, as a popular form of all-woman travel, has rarely been interpreted from the perspective of intimacy. Drawing on the concept of intimacy, this study employs a qualitative approach to explore Chinese women's experiences of girlfriend getaways. Three distinctive characteristics that encapsulate young Chinese women's girlfriend getaways are identified: a pure intimacy freeing women from oppressive social expectations and gender norms; an individualised intimacy that spans individualised boundaries and togetherness; and, a feminist intimacy stretching into sisterhood. The girlfriend getaway emerges as a feminist practice infused with intimacy. Applying intimacy theory to gender and tourism studies, this paper illustrates how women approach empowerment through intimacy and enriches the study of intimacy by encompassing social structures and China's context.

Can We Really Think of ‘Friendship’ as a Way of Life? A Reflection

This essay presents a critical thought on the much ‘celebrated’ social association called ‘friendship’, especially from the contexts of Hinduized (village) societies in India. The usage of the term ‘friendship’ has a wide range; everyone describes ‘friendship’ as per their own convenience. ‘Friendship’ has been considered to be fundamentally different in terms of its non-biological basis; a relationship based on mutual acknowledgement; voluntary in nature that can go beyond any social barriers, without any legal sanction. Various scholars consider ‘friendship’ as enduring ‘way of life’ or as ‘model’ for how we as a society might expand our conceptions of intimacy and care. But, can we really think of ‘friendship’ as ‘way of life’? What are the difficulties in considering ‘friendship’ as ‘way of life’ in the context of the social lifeworld dominated by hegemonic Brahmanism? This essay, on the one hand, recognizes the importance of ‘friendship’ that can provide a space of solidarity at a ‘personal level’ in neoliberal modern societies (consisted with autological rational individuals), but on the other hand, it focuses on the role of ’commonness’ in the processes of ‘becoming friend’ to highlight some difficulties in considering ‘friendship’ as ‘way of life’ or as a radical category to be endured and to redefine ‘intimacy and care’.

What is visual intimacy?

Intimacy is a key social goal and the fundamental basis of close social relationships. Current social relationships and the interactions through which they are created and maintained are highly visualised. This visualisation also transforms the way that intimacy is played out. Based on an interdisciplinary literature review, this paper focuses on the concepts of intimacy and visual intimacy, and maps the different roles that visuals can play in intimacy practices. It shows that the content of visuals is not always essential for creating and maintaining intimacy. Practices relating to producing, sharing, and talking about pictures, as well as practices of seeing, also need to be taken into account when discussing the overall concept of visualintimacy.

Intimacy and Autism: An Apparent Paradox

The concept of intimacy includes the idea of being open to others. But autistic patients have a hard time dealing with relationships, and for a therapist to become “autistic” is therefore an emotional paradox. Intimacy is a condition that involves others and requires the ability to maintain a condition in which emotional background noise doesn’t interfere, and the body is free enough of anxiety to allow people to get onto the same wavelength. For psychoanalysts, the ambiguity of the situation lies in the fact that, as in any therapy, becoming “autistic” with autistic people means seeking empathy with the patient, but also protecting ourselves, sometimes in an unconscious way, from contact with overwhelming feelings. So, oscillating in a contiguous-autistic state of mind is both a positive and a negative therapeutic fact; on the other hand, maintaining the paradox can be a valuable tool in psychoanalytic therapy.

Photography and Writing, or the Intimacy of the Image: A Dialogic Encounter between Barthes’s Camera Lucida and Blanchot’s Philosophy of Otherness

This article was prompted by James Elkins’s argument — developed in his book, What Photography Is, from 2011 — that there is no actual relationship between Roland Barthes’s theory of photography and Maurice Blanchot’s philosophy. Drawing on considerations of an historical, philosophical, and literary nature, the article argues for the importance of a dialogic encounter between Barthes and Blanchot, demonstrating that the interconnection between the concepts of intimacy, image, and writing, appears as a crucial aspect in the theory of both authors. At the same time, by contesting Elkins’s wider criticism of Barthes’s Camera Lucida (1982), the article aims to develop better-informed theoretical understandings of Barthes’s thoughts on photography. The final section of the article attempts to map promising points of connection between Barthes, Blanchot, and Proust, in order to reassess the notion of punctum in its broader relation with the concepts of time and death.

Persons with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Renegotiate Social Roles and Intimacy: A Qualitative Study.

Persons with complex regional pain syndrome often experience allodynia, where touch is painful. Allodynia is associated with poor prognosis, but the impacts on roles, activities, social relationships, and intimacy remain unclear. There is a need to examine intimacy in complex regional pain syndrome from a lived experience perspective. We conducted a secondary analysis of cognitive debriefing interview data from 44 persons with complex regional pain syndrome who completed a patient-reported questionnaire. Using interpretive description and thematic analysis, we analyzed items and responses addressing allodynia, relationships, and intimacy. Two themes were developed to understand intimacy related to the pain experience: a renegotiated social identity and participation and a reinvented intimate self. These themes included elements of a) loss of control, b) loss of shared experiences, c) feeling that their condition was misunderstood, d) a need for self-preservation, e) altered self-concept, and e) the concept of intimacy is broader than sexuality. Our findings suggest that complex regional pain syndrome has pervasive impacts on relationships and intimacy that merit discussion with their health care team. Persons with persistent pain need to be supported in roles and activities that allow them to express intimacy in their everyday lives.

La estirpe de Orfeo. Acercamiento al imaginario poético en la Obra de Carlos Fajardo Fajardo

La obra poética de Carlos Fajardo es una de las más logradas en el panorama de la poesía latinoamericana. Este artículo se constituye en un acercamiento a un imaginario poético que restituye desde la intimidad, el poder de la imagen poética en constante confrontación con elementos contemporáneos que alienan y despojan lo humano. El escenario conceptual que respalda este análisis proviene de parámetros ofrecidos por la hermenéutica de Ricoeur en lo concerniente a la mediación textual que posibilita procesos de comprensión y de autocomprensión, en diálogo con los conceptos de intimidad y extraversión de Bachelard, resuelto, en este caso, a través del poder crítico cifrado en imágenes marcadas por la huella existencial del sujeto. Fajardo como poeta fundador del grupo Si mañana despierto, propone la poesía como resistencia vital en tiempos en los que la humanidad es prescindible y en los que se ha hecho de la homogeneización y del horror un espectáculo.

Panel report, IPA Congress Buenos Aires 2017: How do we understand intimacy from an intrapsychic model: Where is the unconscious in the concept of intimacy?

Chair: Dana Birksted‐BreenPanellists: Georg Bruns, Jose Carlos Calich and Rachel B. BlassReporter: Clara NemasDana Birksted‐Breen stressed in her introduction that the subject of the Congress – int...

Ways of (Virtual) Seeing: Applying a Bergerian Lens in a Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE)

Ways of (Virtual) Seeing: Applying a Bergerian Lens in a Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE)

Fantasies of mobility: Mobile singles’ attachments and desires of mobility

This article contributes to research on intimacies and mobilities. Using the concept of intimacy, it focuses on mobile singles' hopes, desires and projections in response to mobility's promised and assumed opportunities. I interviewed sixteen participants from Canada and the UK about their experience of migration, focusing on its affective elements. As mobile singles, they are alone and detached in significant ways, which makes it especially relevant to study how they build intimacy in their new settings. Mobility produces fantasies of connection and attachment to local people and cultures: they wish to meet local people in the host country (friends, colleagues, lovers, etc), get to know their culture and develop a sense of belonging in the community. This is sometimes hard to achieve, and some react with alienation and anger, while others assess and revise their hopes and expectations in response to the difficulties they encounter by, for example, emphasizing the ‘good’ aspects of living in the host country. For a significant number of participants, dating and finding a partner is seen as a privileged way of forging strong ties to a local community. Many participants are willing to go forward with migration even if it means putting existing relationships in jeopardy, or moving again in the future. Despite doubts and disappointments, mobility seems to hold the promise of something better.

Second person singular: late Victorian women poets and the bonds of verse

Emily Harrington offers a new history of women's poetry at the turn of the century that breaks from conventional ideas of nineteenth-century lyric, which focus on individual subjectivity. She argues that women poets conceived of lyric as an intersubjective genre, one that seeks to establish relations between subjects rather than to constitute a subject in isolation. Moving away from canonical texts that contribute to the commonly held notion that lyric poetry is an utterance made in solitude, Harrington explores the work of Christina Rossetti, Augusta Webster, A. Mary F. Robinson, Alice Meynell, and Dollie Radford to show how nineteenth-century poetic conventions shaped and were shaped by concepts of intimacy. Writing about relationships that are familial, divine, sexual, literary, and musical, these poets reconsidered the dynamics of absence and presence, and subject and object, that are at the heart of the lyric enterprise. Harrington locates these poets' theories of intimacy not only in their formal poetic practice but also in diverse prose works such as prefaces, literary and devotional essays, and unpublished letters and diaries. By analyzing various patterns of versification and modes of address, she articulates new ways of thinking about the bonds of verse and enlarges our understanding of verse culture in the late nineteenth century.

The Research and Application of Intimacy in Microblog

This article introduces the concepts of intimacy in psychology into the micro-blog for modeling the relations and recommending the close friends. Inspired by psychology, we measure the degree of intimacy between users in micro-blog through five factors: common friends, common concerns, frequency of forwarding information, frequency of sending message between users and user’s location. In the recommendation stage, we first determine the users whose value of intimacy with the target user are higher than others as the close friends, and then recommend the close friends with the same treatment to the target. In the experiment, we use the proposed intimacy relationship model to analyze the user data and information in Sina Weibo. Experimental results show that our method can obtain accurate users’ relations same as the distribution of real-world, and can make humane user recommendation similar to mutual referrals in real-world for the target.

Marital Intimacy and Selected Correlates of Gender Roles: A Comparative Analysis of Israeli Husbands and Wives

All human beings have a basic need for intimacy and closeness. Erikson defined the concept of intimacy as the “capacity to commit one’s self to concrete affiliations and partnerships, and to develo...

An Intimate Success With Veronica

In this aricle, I address how intimacy, intrapersonally (trait) and interpersonally (state) contains the therapeutic action in an analysis of a traumatized woman named Veronica. The article summarizes the psychoanalytic literature related to the concept of intimacy. I discuss briefly how empathy, despite the analyst’s focus on its presence in the analysis, is not the key to the successful analysis. I then detail how intimacy, in its various forms, helps the analysis succeed despite the seeming distress of the patient and even sometimes that of the analyst.

Comic Intimacy? The Case of Molière’s Lovers’ Quarrels

Moliere’s treatment of lovers’ quarrels in Depit amoureux and subsequent plays reveals a deepening concern in early modern literature for forms of interpersonal dynamics involved in new social concepts of intimacy. A contrast with lovers’ scenes in Plautus, Shakespeare and medieval farce serves to show Moliere’s innovations in both form and content of such scenes. Dramatic analysis of Moliere’s scenes shows a process involving the four successive movements of suspicion, mutual distancing, denial and inability to detach, followed by reconciliation. The contemporary research of psychologist Keith Sanford and his associates offers significant parallels to the development of quarrel scenes in later works by the dramatist. Moliere’s elaboration of these scenes has a lasting impact on his emulators from the eighteenth century onward.