Salvar a psicanálise dos monstros!: uma análise discursiva dos embates públicos em rede sobre as questões de gênero e sexualidade na psicanálise

Abstract

Psychoanalysis occupies an ambivalent position in culture, especially with regard to gender and sexuality. While Freud proposed a theory of sexuality that was subversive in the face of the discussions of the time, Psychoanalysis has historically served as a disciplinary tool for controlling and taming bodies, in complicity with dominant discourses. Thus, the present work aims to analyze the conditions of production, formulation, and circulation of psychoanalytic discourses on gender and sexuality, considering the institutional changes that Psychoanalysis has undergone due to discursive and communicational processes. Drawing on the theories of Louis Althusser, Michel Pêcheux, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Adrienne Rich, Monique Wittig, and Paul Preciado, as well as the study of the process of institutionalization and mediatization of Psychoanalysis, Discourse Analysis was used to analyze the public clashes that followed Paul Preciado's speech at the École de la Cause Freudienne in Paris in 2019. This led to a series of discursive formations on the issues of gender and sexuality that circulate in Psychoanalysis.