"O que quer uma mulher?"

uma experiência parrhesiásta em torno dos enigmas da feminilidade

Abstract

In response to the question “After all, what is the thesis of your Thesis?” This thesis states that parrhesia opposes submission and psychological suffering, enabling the invention and expression of femininity, whether through the spoken or written word. Therefore, it studies the concept of parrhesia related to women, through the practices of speaking openly about oneself that are operated in the construction of femininity. Its main bibliographical references are the last three courses developed by Foucault and psychoanalytic texts from Freud to Lacan. Its objective is to discuss the enigmas of femininity based on the question posed by the psychoanalytic clinic “What does a woman want?” in its articulation with the concept of parrhesia elucidated by Foucault. The literary narrative Antigone, a play by Sophocles, was chosen; The Dora Case, text in which Freud clinically relates the story of Ida Bauer; references to Sappho of Lesbos, Aspasia of Miletus, Hildegard of Bingen, Christine of Pisan, Mary Wollstonecraft, Marie-Olympe of Gouges; Lou Andreas-Salomé, Gabriela Mistral and the Brazilian Nísia Floresta, Parrhesiást women who distrusted the solidity of classical, patriarchal, strongly exclusionary theoretical formulations, irreverently betting on tangential paths. In the end, the Thesis discusses supplementary enjoyment as characteristic of female sexuality, supporting a position of openness to the woman's 'want', manifested in action through parrhesia.