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Vulnerability, desire and violence

by Sans Andrs Armengol

This research aims at discussing the notion of vulnerability as it has been elaborated by the feminist philosophers Judith Butler and Adriana Cavarero. By means of a genealogical perspective that offers an analysis of the deconstruction of the oblivion of the body in the metaphysical corpus, the goal of this dissertation is to enlighten which status is conferred to the embodied subject. The critical apparatus that has been used as a counterpoint for the notion of vulnerability is psychoanalysis, mainly Lacanian psychoanalysis, inasmuch as both Butler and Cavarero take concepts from the psychoanalytic corpus.The purpose is to offer a new theoretical mapping of the subject as it is articulated by the discourses on vulnerability, expanding the version according to which vulnerability would be an ontological condition of the subject. Instead, from a psychoanalytic axis, what is discussed here is the fact that vulnerability, at a discursive level, operates as a symptom in front of the malaises that subjects suffer under the current state of global capitalism, which offers a more materialistic approach towards this matter, and a different version of the subject.Advisors/Committee Members: [emailprotected] (authoremail), true (authoremailshow), Bentouhami, Hourya (director), Besses Raebel, Carlos (director), true (authorsendemail).