O discurso televisivo e o sujeito transexual: sentidos e silenciamentos na mídia

Abstract

From the theorical perspective of the Discourse Analysis (PÊCHEUX, 1969, 1975), attached to the gender studies (BEAUVOIR 1967, 1970; BENTO 2008; BUTLER 2003,2011), this work aims to analyze the series “Quem sou eu?” (Who am I?), which has passed on Fantástico, a program broadcasted by GLOBO Television Network. Being released in four episodes, on four consecutive Sundays, between March and April of 2017, the series approached transsexuality and its relevant demands attached to the transsexual individual, such as: the “choices” of whom was born in a “wrong” body, the impact in the person’s school and academic life due to the fact of being transsexual, the issue of self-medication and treatment(s), the sex reassignment surgery and the relationships in the “transgender world” regarding to familial affection, affection issues and sexual desire. The main goal is to analyze how the series, which is metaphorically narrated inspired by the popular child story “Alice no País das Maravilhas” (Alice in Wonderland) , brings out the topic in a way to start talking about transsexuality, in order to analyze the ideological functioning that permeates the discussions on this topic. Transsexuality has been facing a lot of discussions in the contemporary world covered by intense social impact that justifies the necessity of approaching transsexuality in the scientific production field, so that the conceptions related to this topic will not be mostly based on common sense, allowing the epistemological construction of knowledge on transsexuality. Therefore, this work intends to understand how the experienced effects are sustained – mentioned and not mentioned – in produced discourses – by the media, journalistic discourse, and even to notice the current ideologies in the transsexual individuals’ discourse, as a sense effect – inspired by the topic approached by the series, transsexuality.