Um Olhar Empírico sobre a Identidade Dialógica: Um Estudo sobre a Conjugalidade

Abstract

According to the Dialogical Self Theory, the self is composed by a community of I-positions that give voice to different perspectives which cooperate in order to co-construct and continuously update the meaning of life and identity. Conjugality is a central dimension in the relational world and identity of every human being. The couple works as a micro-society, dealing with several and diverse expectations, constraints and demands. The management abilities developed within this domain of human experience became evident in the proactive role performed by the Relational I-position in the internal dynamics of the self-system. In order to empirically explore the dialogical self-system organization we have developed an interview that allows us to access the I-positions repertoire (Dialogical Articulation Task, DAT) and we analyzed the intrapersonal dynamics in three different moments of the couple’s life cycle.