Masculino, branco, heterossexual e cisgênero: o paradigma social dominante e o novo mal-estar na cultura

Abstract

This work intends, by taking the categories of ill-being developed by Freud in Civilization and Its Discontents, i) to discuss which humanity the author refers to, ii) thematize different ill-beings in different places of culture and lastly, iii) to explore the possibility of there being today a new ill-being in Freud’s "humanity", which I specify in this work by means of the dominant social categories, Masculine, White, Heterosexual and Cisgender. The methodology of this work is defined in parallel with the Journey of the Hero / heroin developed by Campbell (1990) and Murdock (1990), respectively, arguing that any scientific journey is also a heroic journey that unfolds before the research’s eyes. After bibliographical reviews on social constructions taken as universal and, so, thought to be dominant in a segregating society, subjects were interviewed that pertain to these discursive positioning in culture. In the moment of interviewing and the subsequent discursive analysis, Bakhtin’s dialogic perspective was used. That meant that an emphatic and intersubjective glance in the construction of a dialog emerged among the researcher and the research subjects aiming at trying to understand deeply the Other’s constitutive role in the construction of Me. By means of dialog ‘s openness and real listening, it was possible to identify a pain, an ill-being in the Freudian "humanity", i.e. in the dominant social categories, still not clearly realized and, in consequence, not discussed in depth: the solitude of dominants.