In the pretension of the new discourse, the presence of the old one: the discursive practice and the g0y identification in question

Abstract

The notions of gender and sexuality discussed from Butler’s (2013) perspective already make us think the distinction of the medicine’s discourse in relations to the subject’s own discourse: nature vs. culture. For a materialist theory of French line discourse, the notion of gender is determined by ideological bias (ORLANDI, 2017). From the approach of this notions, many papers have discussed approaches and positions regarding the non-cisgender and non-heterosexuals aspects. In our case, we approach the notion of gender, both from the perspective of queer theory and also disursive, to analyze the statements of a homosexual man who, in an enterview to Huffpost Brasil, self-identifies as g0y. The “identity”, however, according to the political-ideological movement itself, is defined by the practice of a heterosexual man who may be attracted to other men, although he is not allowed to date with partners of the same gender and nor the anal sex practice. Thus, from the discurive sequences cut (ORLANDI, 1984) from the mentioned interview, we mobilize the notion of subject-position (PÊCHEUX, 2014b [1975]) to observe the process of identificantion and desidentification of the subject in the discourse about/with his sexuality in face of the g0y movement, and also the notion of interdiscourse (ORLANDI, 2013), referring the subject’s saying to the networks of memories that allow his words to make sense.