Temporality as the co-construction of couple relationship: The regulation of experiential time. (December 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Molina, María Elisa; Tapia-Villanueva, Luis; Fossa, Pablo
• Is Part Of: Culture & psychology. Volume 24:Number 4(2018:Dec.)
• Page Start: 512
• Page End: 528
• Publication Date: 2018-12
• Subjects: Temporality -- relationship -- meaning-making -- intersubjectivity; Culture -- Psychological aspects -- Periodicals; Ethnopsychology -- Periodicals; 155.92
• DOI: 10.1177/1354067X17737719
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1354-067X

Abstract

A study of temporality in human encounters and specifically in amorous relationships is presented. The article aims to analyze subjective and experiential time, focusing on the relationships and the difficulties involved. A review of the theoretical and phenomenological understanding of temporality that gives rise to the Chronogenesis model is made. The authors describe time processing in a couple's experience through an analysis of fictional literature and clinical vignettes. Moments of dialogue are addressed to focus on the relationship as an emergent process, the co-construction of the relationship, "weness, " and a sense of future possibilities in which the partners reposition and negotiate.