Writing and Living Queer: A Few Notes on Queer and Psychoanalysis

Abstract

The article attempts to compare two functional models activated by queerness writing, presented as a discursive approach, and experiencing, understood as the lived dimension of performative practice. By reconstructing the moment that initiated theoretical reflection on queerness, the author reveals this movement’s duality. Said duality consists of theory and experience: non-normativity being defined as a negation of norms, and the experience of the non-normative evading any processes of normalization. The symptomatic perspective adopted by Lacan, as interpreted by the author, enables the identification of subject conceptualizations in psychoanalysis that are analogous to those found in queer.