Volume 46 (2023), Edition 3

With new psychosexual phenomena, e.g. fluidification and ambiguity of gender and increasing distance from sex binaries, sexology and psychoanalysis are faced with the tasks of reviewing and modifying their concepts and fundamental views for better...

The research presented here examined romantic love in heterosexual couple relationships in the present. For this purpose, six problem-centered interviews (three men and three women) were analyzed using a double analysis: A first interpretive pattern...

This article examines social relationships in the context of digital transformation in contemporary society and the increasing importance of digital measuring and comparing. Drawing on findings from the research project »The Quantified Life«, the...

This article interrogates the current cultural practice of mobile dating, using the dating app Tinder as an example, for its subjective and psychodynamic meanings. The essential features of this application are explained and supplemented by...

This article sheds light on the partly unconscious conflicts that can find expression in the consumption of pornography. The background of the explanations is the psychoanalytic theory, which understands pornography as a perverse defense fantasy, in...

The article assumes that reproductive technologies change the conditions for planning and realizing parenthood in many ways. In doing so, they expand the possibilities for the formation of partnerships, but also produce new forms of psychological...