Desejo e sujeição em Judith Butler

Abstract

The condition of subjection constitutes subjects through material and subjective relations, as argued by Judith Butler, thereby, this research seeks to understand how desire can be related to subjection and what possible changes this condition causes in desires and in some important aspects of subjects' lives, such as identity and recognition, affection, and parental relationships like family and marriage. Through these instances that are part of the subject's life and their physical and subjective formation, an ethical and political condition is formulated in order to regulate and maintain certain characteristically heterosexual behaviors and ways of living, altering desire, forms of affectivity, and the freedom of subjects to live in diverse ways. It is important, therefore, that these conditions be discussed and discursively altered within the culture, so that subjects can desire and live their lives according to their own will and, in this way, exercise their freedom and the diversity of their desires in opposition to what power imposes as true, recognizable, or legitimate for life.