Cartografias das diferenças no campo de sexualidade e gênero: um olhar queer e esquizoanalítico

Abstract

Inheriting from Foucault’s ideas about power-knowledge relations, both the Queer Theory and the Philosophy of Difference (or Schizoanalysis) conduct analyses with political and critical disposition towards deconstructing identity logics produced by discursive and power dispositives. This undergraduate thesis aims to problematize the differences in the field of gender and sexuality, starting with the dialogue between conceptual mediators of gender studies, Queer Theory and Philosophy of Difference. This is a qualitative, exploratory and bibliographic study, based on the cartographic method proposed by Deleuze and Guattari, and its ethical-esthetical-political paradigm. The Research Diary was used as a narrative tool for the researcher’s affective and cognitive immersion during the cartographic process, mapping openings to what affects the subjectivity, following a rhizomathic logic and with emphasis on implication. To reflect on experiences outside of the heterosexual-cisgender normativity, covering from the researcher’s personal trajectory to the historical contextualization about the construction of gender and sex concepts, from the feminist context to the genealogy of Foucault’s sexuality apparatus and to Butler’s and Preciado’s theories. Then, the tension between the concepts of identity and difference was articulated, inspired by the perspectives of queer and the Philosophy of Difference. Finally, Herculine Barbin’s story was introduced as a way of illustrating the theories and because of its sensitive effect. Thus, it was aimed to defend the dimension of multiplicity and of becoming as a right in life, so the many ways to experience gender and sexuality find existential paths.