ON THE BANKS OF LOVE

Abstract

The current article was based on the results of the research: “The Quest for Love: A Study with Young Couples of Porto Velho-RO”, developed by the Center of Studies and Researches of Subjectivity in the Amazons (CEPSAM) between August, 2012 and July, 2013. The research aimed to shed light on what people seek in love through the analysis of the discourse of both heteroafective and homoafective couples between 20 and 30 years. It is a qualitative empirical research with an interface with the freudo-lacanian theories. 28 interviews were carried on with 14 homoafective and heteroafective couples. During the interviews, a semi-open script was composed of key questions, ensuring greater flexibility in the researcher-interviewee relation. The obtained information was divided in themes based on Content Analysis, which enable the comprehension of the subjective nuances that pervade love relationships in the Amazons. This analysis pointed out to the relation between love, lack of being, fantasies and especially the narcissistic dimensions of the desiring subject that usually expects to be loved reciprocally. This appeared evidently in the couples’ discourse. Besides, they share the dream of being completed and consequently attain happiness, absolute satisfaction, jouissance. However, absolute satisfaction is impossible for psychoanalysis, because if it was attained, it would represent the death of desire, the death of love and the death of the subject himself/herself.