Intimacy

Reflexive Transformation of Intimacy in Late Modernity Theories: Some Critiques and Conceptual Alternatives

“…In the social sciences, intimacy was defined as the quality of social interactions based on mutual interpretation of the actors (Hahn, 2004). Broadly, intimacy is associated with very close relations among a small number of people (personal relations of friendship, marriage or love); and, narrowly, the phrase intimate relation is used as a synonym for sex or love.…”