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Revista Mal Estar e Subjetividade

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ANDRADE, Marta Rodrigues de Morais  and  FERRARI, Ilka Franco. Legitimação do laço homossexual: um acolhimento possível na realidade social da hipermodernidade. Rev. Mal-Estar Subj. [online]. 2009, vol.9, n.4, pp. 1145-1172. ISSN 1518-6148.

The text involves a subject discussed throughout the western world: the demand of all male homosexual for recognition of the legal legitimacy of their relationship and the corresponding family unit starting with adoption and assisted procreation. Such demands change social bonds, inciting discomfort for touching symbolic structures so far safeguarded; such as the sexual differences in the marriage, in the parental figures and the sexual reproduction. Despite this, it is observed that society has been accepting and listening to male homosexuals, which did not happened half a century ago, when these individuals lived stigmatised in society's margin. It is discussed here, from a formalised psychoanalytic viewpoint, some factors that made this acceptance possible. Freud is cited, but, the main emphasis is in Lacan's teaching and in his contemporaries. Hypermodernity, the definition of our time, is here put into context. It identifies the social reality where "the other" does not exist. In other words, there is the observed decline and pluralisation of the Name-of-the-Father and of its consistent ideals that guided Western civilisation. The Father, that in the formula of intercourse represents the 'Other Whole' declined, revealing its inexistence, its resemblance, its fiction. It took over the 'Other Non-Whole', unlimited and inconsistent, representing the female formula of the intercourse. The predominance of the non-whole made more flexible the rigid morals and opened a field for the recognition and acceptance of diversity, making possible the emergence of the demands of male homosexuals. Identified this discourse and the mode of enjoyment in which the discursive coordinates of science and capitalism predominate, commanding subjects to hunt for more enjoyment. The imperative that everyone has the right and duty of being happy and enjoy the resources that science has to offer made the family a desired and consumed object, contributing to the production of the referred demands.

Keywords : hypermodernity; decline of the father figure; capitalist discourse; homosexual demands; psychoanalysis.

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