Personal Accounts of Love Details of Method

Abstract

There are five aims related to the interview material:

• 1. to provide some discussion of the way the interview was conducted and unfolded (see Chapter 8;

• 2. to approach each interview without ‘memory or desire’. In biographical narrative interpretive method (BNIM) terms the aim is to let the material’s own gestalt emerge;¹

• 3. to use selected aspects of the material in order to provide illustrative² comments on the statements deduced from Chapters 2–7 (views of love as possible, impossible and reconceptualised);

• 4. to argue for the importance of a psychoanalytic sociology of emotion or psychosocial way of seeing love (see Chapter 2);

• 5. to be explicit about the kinds of claims that are made in the light of the statements deduced from discursive, sociological and psychoanalytic approaches to the method discussed in Chapter 8.