Análise sobre padrões de relacionamentos amorosos no livro Sex and The City

• Autor(a) principal: Pastana, Marcela
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Maia, Ana Cláudia Bortolozzi, Maia, Ari Fernando [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://www2.assis.unesp.br/revpsico/index.php/revista/article/view/72; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/125062
• topic: sexual repression; love relationships; gender; repressão sexual; relacionamentos amorosos; gênero

The researches on sexuality, especially from Foucault’s critical analysis, have been denouncing that the sexual repression also happens through the patterns that suggest a fixed happiness model to be followed, not considering the autonomous development of the subject. The aim of this descriptive-qualitative study was to make a critical analysis of the content of the book Sex and The City, which presents narratives about sexual and love relationships in New York. This analysis evidenciated the reproduction of outdated sexual concepts presented on the following thematic categories: (1) Comprehension of the single woman as lonely and unhappy; (2) Comprehension of the single woman as independent and consumerist; (3) Comprehension that the single woman needs a heterosexual relationship related to the happy romantic ideal; (4) Comprehension of the love relationships as commodities: people as objects of use and exchange. The sexual and love patterns presented by the book demonstrate the repression reproduced uncritically by the mass culture. The Psychology has been an important area of the science to denounce the control of the sexuality from these perverse and ideological patterns.