HERCULINE BARBIN Y LA PROBLEMÁTICA DEL VERDADERO SEXO
Abstract
El propósito inicial de este artículo consiste en analizar las lógicas discursivas que dieron paso al tratamiento de la sexualidad bajo la tesis de una supuesta unicidad sexual. Posteriormente y en el marco de la teoría psicoanalítica se propone reflexionar críticamente acerca de la racionalidad científica que sostiene la existencia de una heteronormalidad procedente de un "verdadero sexo". Por último y seguido de las memorias de "Herculine Barbin", un hermafrodita del siglo XIX" se identifican los discursos dominantes de su época que estuvieron articulados al abordaje de su identidad sexual. Estos sistemas discursivos sintetizados en un proceso médico-legal "resolvieron el caso" mediante una rectificación de sexo, cambio de nombre y vestimenta, determinaciones que no logró sobrellevar, suicidándose ocho años más tarde.
The initial purpose of this article is to analyse the discursive logic that led to the treatment of sexuality according to a theory of unique gender. Later, in the context of psychoanalytical theory, it proposes a critical assessment of the scientific rationality that insists on the existence of a heteronormativity deriving from a "true sex". Finally, after the memoirs of "Herculine Barbin", a 19th-century hermaphrodite, it identifies the dominant discourses of that era associated with approaches to your sex identity. These discursive systems, synthesised in a medical and legal proceeding, "resolved the case" by imposing a sexual rectification, change of name and clothing, which Herculine was unable to endure, committing suicide eight years later.
The initial purpose of this article is to analyse the discursive logic that led to the treatment of sexuality according to a theory of unique gender. Later, in the context of psychoanalytical theory, it proposes a critical assessment of the scientific rationality that insists on the existence of a heteronormativity deriving from a "true sex". Finally, after the memoirs of "Herculine Barbin", a 19th-century hermaphrodite, it identifies the dominant discourses of that era associated with approaches to your sex identity. These discursive systems, synthesised in a medical and legal proceeding, "resolved the case" by imposing a sexual rectification, change of name and clothing, which Herculine was unable to endure, committing suicide eight years later.
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Vol. 15, No. 1