Abstract

LIMA, Vinícius Moreira. Gender Depreciated: Psychoanalysis and the Necrobiopolitics of Transidentities. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.spe, pp.1643-1662.  Epub May 27, 2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2022.71767.

The contemporary issues posed to psychoanalysis by transidentities have been discussed in the field in very different ways, either in defensive positions or in an interpretation more prone to the dialogue with such questions. Among defensive perspectives, we often find the attempt to reduce gender problems to imaginary issues, as if gender was just a narcissistic whim of the ego, connected to an alienating identification with a given identity. In the French scenario, which has strong repercussions in the Brazilian context, Jacques-Alain Miller and Elisabeth Roudinesco, each one in its own way, can be considered representative of this kind of thought. Against this tendency, the objective of this article, which is based upon a critical review of literature, is to refocus the terms of the debate resorting to the intervention of the philosopher Paul B. Preciado, showing that what is at stake in matters of gender is not only a question regarding the register of identifications, but also a broader issue concerning social violence and the way in which psychoanalysis takes sides itself in relation to the regime of necrobiopolitics that pervades the contemporary world.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; gender; biopolitics; necropolitics; transidentities..

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