Transphobia and abjection: possible dialogues between psychoanalysis and queer theory

Abstract:

Transphobia, as a practice of violence and exclusion, is inflicted in several ways against transvestites and transsexuals, but the “trans” women are significantly more affected. In this article we make a dialogue between Judith Butler’s concept of abject bodies and Psychoanalysis formulations about the constitution of the subject and the theory of sexuation, aiming to think transphobia as a phenomenon of segregation. Our hypothesis is that the “trans” women figures may work as a magnifying glass over the jouissance not encoded by language, this type of aberration that peeks every speaking being, which we don’t want to know about.

Keywords:
transphobia; abjection; jouissance; sexuation