ABSTRACT.
Based on Foucault's and Butler's theories about power, norm and subject, this article intended to problematize the subjects’ attachment to identity in the current time and its consequences for the psychoanalytic clinics. We argued that, on the one hand, identity represents a subjection to norms and has an incarcerating and masking effect of desires, but on the other hand, it can be important as a protection against helplessness. We distinguished, with Butler, precariousness (a universal, shared condition) from precarity (a condition produced by the differential social allocation of the precarious condition) and hypothesized that the higher the degree of precariousness of a subject, the more important the identity attachment and recognition. We specifically addressed the theme of trans identities, because of its radicality regarding the precarious condition and the search for recognition. Finally, we used the concept of femininity at the end of Freud's work as a clinical listening device that allows the transformation of identity crystallizations towards the new, the singular and the multiple identifications.
Keywords:
Psychoanalysis; precariousness; identity