%0 Journal Article %T Amor y poder entre los g¨Śneros %A Meler %A Irene %J Subjetividad y procesos cognitivos %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X in order to analyze power relationships in married couples, i have proposed a typology that classifies relationships between women and men around an axe that goes from tradition to innovation. i describe the dynamics of conjugal relationships in traditional couples, transitional, countercultural and in innovative ones. i present findings derived from qualitative research, where we can see the complex ways in which the erotic desire, communication, work position and parenthood, articulate in such a way that it is impossible to discriminate between desire, a theoretic category that is crucial to psychoanalysis and power relationships, a fundamental concept in gender studies. %K desire %K power %K couple %K psychoanalysis %K gender. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1852-73102010000100010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en