Ambigua (Dec 2014)
El erotismo prohibido: un mecanismo estructurado y estructurante de relaciones de poder
Abstract
This document systematizes the main premises of a research project based on the forbidden eroticism, as a structured and structuring mechanism of power-based relationships that take place in patriarchal societies. The indi-vidual and collective practices of this power-based relationships are mani-fested in three dimensions: Decision making process, concrete relational en-vironment, and the sense of praxis production. Reflections on this project are based on the hermeneutic and historic method which are applied to the main theories on power in two cinematographic productions that involve this topic, and the critical analysis of alternative thinking, experiencing, and compre-hending sexuality that are socially judged of being “devious sexual practices”. Forbidden eroticism is built on a power mechanism, as a hinge dispositif, which allows us to understand sexuality from a political perspective weaving the existing relationships between state, family, public spaces and individual subjectivity which condition legally and morally people’s experiences of pleasure, enjoyment, and jouissance that re-produce discursive resistance practices, legitimizing or repressing the non-material dimension of their own sexuality. From this point of view the article attempts to expose how forbidden eroticism brings out the sexuality canon on which alternative forms are cate-gorized as pathologies that threaten society’s control over people and its con-ception of normality based on a hetero-normal discipline that as a technology of the self, centers the function of sexuality as merely reproductive and linked to the family as the core of every society.
