Love in the window

Love can be less complicated than it seems. Discover everything you need to know about relationships in Amor na vitrine .

Even in the 21st century, topics like love, sex, and relationships remain shrouded in mystery. Since the earliest times of human civilization, love has undergone countless interpretations from all over the world.

Currently, in the structure we know, we love our family almost without question, but when it comes to a relationship with someone who gives us pleasure, everything gets complicated. Love occupies a large space in our lives, and because it's a social construct, it transforms and evolves. We don't love like our parents, and our children probably won't love like we do.

In addition to her clinical practice, psychoanalyst and author Regina Navarro Lins has dedicated herself to researching issues involving relationships and sexuality, based on the History of Mentalities: a study of collective feelings and behaviors in a given place or period of humanity. Her research focuses on questions about the emergence of love, the division of roles in society and how this division contributed to the formation of patriarchy, the structure of life as a couple, and the possibility of being happy alone or with more than one romantic partner.

Love in the Showcase explores the dynamics of relationships from prehistory, through Ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, the 19th century, and the advent of the birth control pill in the 20th century, all the way to new relationships in the contemporary connected world, where the structures of relationships and patterns of sexuality are frequently questioned. Through small portions of text, the author provokes, informs, and leads to reflections on the possible trajectories of loving relationships in constant change.

In this showcase, presented by Regina Navarro Lins, we can see others and ourselves, our emotions and feelings exposed for analysis by anyone who passes by.