Imagining the Absent Partner - Intimacy and Imagination in Long-Distance Relationships

Jurkane-Hobein, Iveta

doi:10.12959/issn.1855-0541.iiass-2015-no1-art13

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“…It is postulated that a much more intense romantic imagery is needed to maintain an online romantic relationship than a conventional one when partners have more actual contact. Indeed, it has been argued that it is imagination that enables long-distance romantic relationships to be continuous beyond face-to-face meetings and intimacy to be experienced without co-presence (10). Based on a qualitative analysis of fraudulent profiles from an international dating website, Kopp et al suggest that romantic imagery of the victims play a critical role in romance scams (11).…”

Section: Mental Imagery and Romantic Imagerymentioning

confidence: 99%

Romance Scams: Romantic Imagery and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

Chuang

2021

Front. Psychiatry

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Love has an enormous effect on mental health. One does not need an actual romantic relationship to be in love. Indeed, romantic love can be built upon without frequent or real-life encounters, such as with a stranger from a matching website. With the advancement of the Internet and the influence of coronavirus disease, it is believed that these distant romantic relationships and related romance scams are burgeoning. Often, the victims of scams keep emotionally attached to the scammer even after the lie is revealed, which is hypothesized to be attributed to the aberrantly exaggerated romantic imagery of the victims. It is observed that many victims suffer from symptoms similar to a post-traumatic stress disorder, and some even consider suicide. However, there is scant literature on this topic. In this article, it is further postulated that the aberrant romantic imagery might be associated with impulsive acts such as suicide once the ideal but fake romantic relationship is dissolved. Thereafter, it is further speculated that manipulation of the visual network, possibly by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), might be a promising treatment.

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Section: Mental Imagery and Romantic Imagerymentioning

confidence: 99%

Romance Scams: Romantic Imagery and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

Chuang

2021

Front. Psychiatry

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“…Intimacy in long-distance relationships has to be sustained over periods of absence, with or without a pandemic. And new communication technologies have long become central to regular practices of intimacy in many such cases (Jurkane-Hobein 2015). And yet, the context of COVID-19 has aff orded absence a much larger presence, breaking the rhythms of encounter, long-or short-distance.…”

Section: The Presence Of Absencementioning

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Spatio-Temporal Translations

Baffelli

Schröer

2021

Anthropology in Action

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, access to space has been strictly regulated and restricted. Many of us feel acutely disconnected from our relationships, while at the same time new forms of (virtual) intimacies have become ubiquitous. In the pandemic present, nearly all interpersonal relations are now characterised by a double absence that is concrete and material, and also emotional and felt. This article offers a theoretical reflection on how conditions of absence create new practices of intimacy and new strategies of coping. It does so by discussing how pre-pandemic emotional repertoires are translated into new forms of intimacy that can synchronise or throw out of sync. It highlights the centrality of spatial and temporal relations under absence in uncovering new mediated practices.

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“…Pengguna membayangkan reaksi penerima teks mesej yang dihantar dan membayangkan bahawa penerima teks mesej tersebut wujud secara ideal, berminat dan peduli dengan perkara yang mereka sampaikan menerusi mesej tersebut. Namun, media sosial sebenarnya telah mengubah jangkaan amalan intimasi dan mewujudkan tekanan dalam interaksi (Jurkane-Hobein, 2015). Menurut Jamieson (2013), teknologi baharu ini telah membawa beban dan tekanan baharu terhadap jangkaan dalam persahabatan.…”

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Keakraban dalam Persahabatan dan Corak Interaksi di Media Sosial

Pazil¹

2020

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Menerusi peluang penajaan daripada kerajaan, syarikat swasta atau agensi tertentu, pelajar-pelajar cemerlang di Malaysia berpeluang untuk belajar di universiti ternama dan tinggal di luar negara dalam tempoh tiga hingga lima tahun untuk melengkapkan pengajian mereka. Mobiliti sementara untuk meneruskan pengajian ke peringkat tinggi di luar negara telah menimbulkan pelbagai cabaran kepada pelajar-pelajar Malaysia yang perlu hidup bersendirian dalam persekitaran yang asing pada usia yang agak muda. Selain cabaran untuk beradaptasi di negara yang berbeza latar belakang budaya, pelajar-pelajar ini juga berhadapan dengan cabaran untuk mengekalkan hubungan akrab dengan sahabat dan keluarga yang berada jauh secara fizikal dari mereka. Persoalannya di sini adakah mobiliti geografi ini mempengaruhi amalan intimasi dalam persahabatan akrab dan adakah media sosial membantu untuk mendekatkan jarak fizikal antara pelajar dan sahabat akrab mereka di Malaysia? Menerusi penulisan diari persahabatan selama tiga minggu, peta persahabatan dan temu bual mendalam, interaksi lapan orang pelajar Malaysia dengan sahabat akrab mereka telah direkodkan dan dianalisa. Artikel ini membincangkan sejauh mana media sosial membantu untuk mengukuhkan atau melemahkan amalan intimasi dalam persahabatan akrab bagi pelajar Malaysia yang berhijrah ke United Kingdom dengan meneliti corak interaksi mereka. Empat corak interaksi yang telah dikenal pasti adalah: 1) penambahan atau penyingkiran nama sahabat akrab, 2) kekerapan hubungan, 3) tempoh dan medium interaksi, dan 4) kandungan interaksi. Kata kunci: Persahabatan akrab, intimasi, corak interaksi, mobiliti, media sosial.

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Imagining the Absent Partner - Intimacy and Imagination in Long-Distance Relationships

Cited by 7 publications

References 16 publications

Romance Scams: Romantic Imagery and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

Romance Scams: Romantic Imagery and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

Spatio-Temporal Translations

Keakraban dalam Persahabatan dan Corak Interaksi di Media Sosial

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