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Untied ties as effect of false-self functioning in times of mistrust

The contemporaneity offers ways of structuring the subjectivity largely pervaded by the conditions of socio-cultural and economic existence. In turn, these have promoted fragile intersubjectives bonds, whose psychic functioning can have a base organization "false-self". Authors shows that many institutions today have become "fluid" in the passage from modernity to "liquid modernity" and contributed to the loss of solid references that once gave meaning and direction to humans. This interferes directly in the construction of "mature confidence", because the distress signs in contemporaneity may be one disruptive psychic functioning, and to promote isolation, mistrust in environment and in the other, untied ties and functioning of base "false-self".

social ties; love; psychosocial factors; contemporaneity


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