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.
Authors
Rosa, Catarina
Gonçalves, Miguel
Other Author(s)
Universidade de Coimbra. Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, ed. lit.
Keywords
Identidade dialógica,
Dinâmicas intrapessoais,
Ciclo de vida
conjugal,
Mediação semiótica,
dialogical self,
intrapersonal dynamics,
couple’s life cycle,
semiotic
mediation,
identité dialogique,
dynamiques intrapersonnelles,
cycle de la vie
conjugale,
médiation sémiotique
