Produção de identidades, performatividade e política na filosofia de Judith Butler

Abstract

Judith Butler thinks of identity as an ongoing process and not as an essence. The subject is the effect of discourses and practices that are consolidated in repetition. For the author, language produces what it names, constituting the apprehensible and shaping the bodies of subjects. We are formed in interpellations and the terms by which we are named makes us human. It is the addressing of the other that enables us to exist. In many cases, these names give recognition to some groups and exclude others. Gender and sex are part of the subject's humanization process and circumscribe the bodies. They are thought of as effects of language, are performative, a set of repeated acts within a normative scheme that gains an appearance of fixity. The subjects who challange the norms and the ideal of internal coherence have their humanity questioned. Butler proposes a possibility of subversion of the norms through the very terms that enable us, being a political strategy for the inclusion of marginalized categories.