THE SEARCH FOR NEW FORMS OF LIFE IN THE TRANSEXUAL BODY: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM FOUCAULT IN THE ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT EPISTEMOLOGY?

Abstract

This research aims to show the conditions of the historical construction of times in which the ways of living and who had the right to exercise frank speech were subjects who held power, even in times when there were no terms such as transsexuality, its prohibition always existed multiple forms across space and time in the West. It identifies and analyzes the contradictions in relation to the theme of gender, which goes back to Michel Foucault, who leaves his legacy for the continuation of struggles and resistances in the present day and that, if we perceive the context of protection that the right to live is in the interdiction of a speech history that has advanced over time, but which requires greater expenditure and attention in socioeconomically vulnerable countries such as Brazil, the world leader in deaths of transgender people, while at the same time being the country that consumes the most transgender pornography in the world. However, the dimension of forms of indifference to social and economic status have always been at the apex of bodies that have the right to speak to those who are interdicted, and that what we are experiencing today is not something new, but the maintenance of forms of power in different spaces, of forms and techniques of strength of those who command and those who obey, of forces in which it is up to the body unprotected in rights to always resist, day after day. It can be mentioned that, in aspects of unequal (in)equality of opportunities of the subject, the way of life and the power of the State is equated to the Ancients, although thousands of years ago, there was even greater freedom in people’s lives.