Abstract

MARTINEZ, Ariel. From a misogynist homosexual to a feminist “marica”. Contributions towards a political de-identification beyond Oedipus. Culturales [online]. 2019, vol.7, e457.  Epub Aug 07, 2020. ISSN 2448-539X.  https://doi.org/10.22234/recu.20190701.e457.

This paper offers a critique to the conceptual contributions to what the psychoanalytic theory posits as explanation for the formation of the homosexual masculinity. The Oedipus Complex will be used as a central concept to take as reference in order to unconceal its misogynistic operation, not only for the placement of mothers in object positions by the psychoanalytical rhetoric, but also for constructing a hate-generating device towards the feminine. For such elucidation, contributions of feminist approach thought are presented as key resources to reveal the political and socio-historic aspects that underlay the universal pretension of psychoanalytic explanations. In the same vein, non-psychoanalytical frames that picture the relationship between the homosexual and his mother with other non-misogynistic senses are explored. Finally, as an ethical-political imperative, the figure of the Marica is proposed as an alternative narrative that short-circuits the senses and words that serve in the Oedipus to articulate/joint contemporary sexual identities.

Keywords : homosexual; “marica”; psychoanalysis; Oedipus; identity.

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