Dissertation: Erzählte Liebe – Erzählte Identität(en)

Erzählte Liebe – Erzählte Identität(en)

Eine soziologische Analyse

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SOCIALIA – Studienreihe soziologische Forschungsergebnisse, volume 145

Hamburg , 338 pages

ISBN 978-3-8300-9049-6 (print) |ISBN 978-3-339-09049-2 (eBook)

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Identity is built in (self) narratives. However, narratives, also those about love, are deceptive. They also live from what is not said, omitted and only assumed or what even needs reformulating. Experience and concept are in a permanent state of contradiction, indeed conflict for balance. But is there any alternative? Who am I if I have nothing left to narrate (to myself)? It is despite this ambivalence that narratives about one’s own life, about concepts, on their success and rejection play a pivotal role in the everyday process of identity construction. The expansion of choices, models for love and ways of life results in myriad forms of confrontation and freedoms, but it is a freedom that constraints. As discontinuity increases, love and identity equally seem to be fundamentally essential as elusive in reciprocity for justifying the other.

This study focuses on the question of to what extent teenagers and young adults react to the increasing discontinuity and disintegration that stem from living in a society that has diversified into subsystems and subcultures, which simultaneously allows them greater participation, freedom of movement, a voice, opportunities to communicate and financial resources. But what do identity and love have to do with each other? This study hopes to provide a topical answer to this question, although the intention is not to explain love, its inherent power, its magic or its possible failure, but to use narratives about love to examine the self-concepts and cultural patterns of narration and, in relation to this, the understanding of identity. In using narrative, experiences are linked to become contexts; ruptures and coincidences change to later become biographical necessities. They are interwoven in a continuous thread that links past, present and future. The focus of the study is on the elements of contextual and relational processes and structural features in identity construction. These perspectives are intended to make it possible to examine the construct of identity with regard to the different strategies and mechanisms for adapting and coping, which allow successful identity, ability to act and thus authorship for one’s own history, in the context of the postmodern as well.

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