“Novas” configurações de relacionamento afetivo-sexual. A criação subjetiva de uma relação em trisal

Abstract

The forms of affective-sexual relationships have changed and gained various configurations nowadays, beyond the heteromononormative constitution deeply rooted in modern western culture. Polyamory is one of the contemporary forms of non-monogamous relationships that values and affirms the possibility of being romantically and sexually involved in a consensual and concomitant way with more than one person. Specifically, this research is a case study about how polyamory is subjectively configured in a relational arrangement among three people. The specific objectives are: to recognize the predominant historical-cultural aspects in the polyamorous experience of a relationship among three people (including the breaches with such aspects); to identify some communicational processes in the subjective configuration of the relational arrangement between the throuple; to build and to interpret indicators of subjectives senses of this relational experience, through the conversational space of the research; and finally produce hypotheses, based on the indicators, that constitute an analytical synthesis of the subjective process of a polyamorous relationship in throuple. In order to do this, the epistemo- methodological basis of the investigation was based on Qualitative Epistemology, in its constructive- interpretive method and in conversation, its main instrument, developed by the researcher Fernando González Rey. The theory of subjectivity, also created by González Rey, conceives heuristic value to subjectivity by proposing the symbolic and the emotional as a generating unit of subjectives senses and configurations in face of the experiences of individuals in social spaces. In this sense, the contribution of the theory of subjectivity in interdisciplinary dialogue with socio-anthropological, philosophical and communication studies served as a reference for the production of information with the fieldwork in the investigation. The conversation took place through the virtual meeting held with a throuple composed of two women and a man who were engaged as study participants. The main categories that emerged in the conversation were family, bisexuality and standard relationship, from which the role of hetero-mono- cisnormativity in the production of conflicting subjectives senses of the participants was recognized, through the experience of their polyamorous relationship. Once the meeting was held, indicators were constructed that romantic love, marriage and reproduction are subjectively experienced by the throuple as a way to legitimize the affective-sexual relationship and the family configuration between them. In this way, the value of developing ethical communication between the throuple was identified in the production of alternatives subjectives senses in the way they were subjectively reconfiguring family, sexuality and gender aspects throughout the polyamorous involvement between them. The constructed information was also interpreted in order to verify the ruptures that the throuple had to make with heteromononormativity and with a representation of macho masculinity for the expression of female bisexuality and male sensitivity in their relationship. Finally, it was considered that the polyamorous relational arrangement of the throuple is situated in a place between monogamy and non-monogamy, maintaining proximity with some monogamous structural values, but subverting the couple dyad and promoting qualitative transformations for a ethical communication.