Romantic jealousy: a brief historical, views, correlated conceptions and their correlated developments to the love relatioships

Abstract

What is jealousy? Is there a story for it? Since ancient times we find countless authors and understandings that have focused on these issues. Unfortunately, what can really be observed is that the theoretical understandings focuses almost entirely on the clinical, psychiatric and ‘individual’ aspects of jealousy, as if it were possible to isolate the individual from its context that not only surrounds it as it is commonly believed but, more than that, constitutes it. The purpose of this article, while being a bibliographic review, is to promote a debate and analyze the impacts of jealousy over the everyday love relationships. For this, we seek to answer the following question: in which way jealousy, present in some relationships between men and women, can be understood in face of the transformations that society is undergoing and of the characteristics of contemporary amorous coexistence? Such survey observed that jealousy is not a contemporary experience. On the contrary, it is an ancient feeling, timeless, which follows through different ages and contexts of the human history.