Banca de DEFESA: JOÃO FLORENTINO CUNHA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : JOÃO FLORENTINO CUNHA
DATA : 29/04/2021
HORA: 10:00
LOCAL: PPGPSI - Plataforma Virtual
TÍTULO:

Construction of identity of asexual teenagers in virtual communities

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Cultural Psychology, Transition, Symbolic Resource, Assexuality, Sexual Identity.

PÁGINAS: 113
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Psicologia
SUBÁREA: Psicologia do Desenvolvimento Humano
RESUMO:

One of the most basic assumptions about human nature is that we all have sexual desire. Following this perspective, sexual desire would not only be a primary element of human experience in terms of behavior and biology, but would also be an identity and constitutive aspect of us as subjects. Viewed this way, individuals who are not sexually attracted and identify as asexuals are in a unique position regarding their experience and how they describe it not only questions the validity and the ways in which sexuality is socially constructed, but also implies new ways of thinking about non-normative forms of sexuality and affectivity in face of discrimination and pathologization. Based on Cultural Semiotic Psychology perspective, this work is a study about the assexual teenagers’s identity construction and their transitional narratives. It was set up as a ethnographic study to understand the transitional process that teenagers and young adults goes through in the journey to understand themselves as asexuals and what it is the meaning of this label in the construction of their selves. The field chosen to be studied was the A2, a brazilian assexual virtual community that has as purpose to be a safe place to asexuals of all ages share their life experiences and views on assexuality. For the cultural-semiotic framework, this community can be seen as a place where its participants share symbolic resources, cultural elements used to mediate the representational work inherent to developmental transitions. These transitions are understood as processes occasioned by ruptures or discontinuities in life development, where “taken-for-granted” meanings cease to be taken for granted and the individual has to find news ways to make sense of who they are and their experience. Prior research with asexuals show that one of the fundamental challenges that these individuals face because of their sexual identities is bridging the gap between their emotional experience and the resources that are culturally available to articulate that experience both to themselves and to others.  By understanding possible paths that teenager and young adult asexuals come to see themselves as asexuals and what resources are found and created to bridge that discursive gap and make sense of their experience can help to better understand what is at stake in the life development of those who sexual identity violates the status quo.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 794.910.225-04 - LIA DA ROCHA LORDELO - UFBA
Interno(a) - 1524745 - MARIA VIRGINIA MACHADO DAZZANI
Externo(a) à Instituição - GIÓRGIA DE AQUINO NEIVA