Homoaffective Loving Bond and Psychoanalysis: A Qualitative Study

Abstract

Contemporaneity encompasses several forms of conjugality, among them the relationship between people of the same sex. There are several studies on homoaffectivity and homoaffective parenting, however, few emphasize the investigation of the conjugality of these couples, especially from the psychoanalytic framework. The aim of this study was to analyze the homoaffective conjugality through the Couple and Family Psychoanalysis framework, with a focus on the bond typology and infl uence of generational psychic transmission. This was a clinical-qualitative study, in which four couples were interviewed, these being two pairs of women and two pairs of men, with lengths of relationship ranging from 3 to 11 years. The incidence of a bond typology of thirdness could be perceived, evidencing the capacity of these couples not to idealize the bond, exchanging different meanings about the relationship. The infl uence of generational psychic transmission was also observed, encouraging the members of the couples, through psychic alliances, to form their own conjugal models elaborated from previous generations. New studies aimed at the comprehension of the homoaffective conjugal bond should be carried out.