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The Romantic Unconscious: Conflict And Compromise In The Research Of Romantic Love, Joseph S. Reynoso
The Romantic Unconscious: Conflict And Compromise In The Research Of Romantic Love, Joseph S. Reynoso
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Social scientists continue empirically researching the psychology of romantic love. However, there is little attention spent evaluating the direction and nature of this work. In this theoretical study, the author argues that the research literature presents a limited view of romantic relationships. A contributing factor is the relative inattention to the interplay of conscious and unconscious mental processes in empirical models. The author examines the prevalent model of studying relationships for its assumptions about the accessibility of psychological states and the accuracy of participant reports. To support his case, the author reviews research that explores the limits of a psychology …
Provocative Enactments As Regulators Of Underarousal And Its Associated Affects, Steven Bashkoff
Provocative Enactments As Regulators Of Underarousal And Its Associated Affects, Steven Bashkoff
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This theoretical/clinical-case study explores the function of provocative enactments as a means to regulate underaroused states and the affects associated with underarousal. A great deal of psychoanalytic literature emphasizes the function of provocative enactments as destructive or as a way to devalue others or disconnect from them; this function certainly exists in one class of such enactments where the actor’s goal is to destroy interpersonal ties or enhance self-esteem by kindling negative affect in the other person. However, this dissertation proposes that there exists another, distinct class of provocative enactments where their function serves to activate or reengage another person …