Sexualidade e contemporaneidade: pesquisa com um grupo de mulheres que frequenta a noite na cidade de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

This study has as its object to examine how heterosexual women stand themselves before their own sexuality in contemporary days. It has as its objective to verify if exists any conflict between their aspirations related to their loving relationships and their real sexual life. In this context they are coming out from a traditional perspective, in which mandatory rules coordinated people existence, to live a “individual-centralized-logic” by which they get their own rights to put their own questions and to live them by their own decision. However, at the same time, they have to suffer the frustrations derived from these new “free” conditions. The object will be focused under psychoanalysis perspective, especially under Sigmund Freud’s concepts. As one can see, it is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study that about the representations of nearly 11 (eleven) women, that are from 33 (thirty three) to 43 (forty three) years old, and that use to go in night clubs in Juiz de Fora city.