La tarea crítica: interconexiones entre lenguaje, deseo y subjetividad

Abstract

The present work constitutes an exercise of reflection dealing with the critical task. Its main goal is to incorporate, partially at least, the dimension of «what has not been known, not been thought but been acted through the critical action”. This is a space of reflection that must not necessarily be thought as a space of domination. The essay considers that the idea of rationality is a discursive logic and an heritage from modernity that still characterizes the critical task. A space that, in our opinion, makes difficulty any possibilities for second order change inhabiting that critic. In this exercise we regard mainly sources from post-structuralism feminism‘s critical theory (Haraway, Butler, Braidotti, Keller, Birulés, etc.). Sacioconstructinonism is deployed for mapping the space for critical task, but only as a possibility because our space is Psychology. Nevertheless our reflection reaches non feminist post-structuralism critical theories. Here, the main objective is to increase in some degree our conscience about a dark pact of the critical task with the purpose of increasing its transformation potential. Some specific questions are outstanding for the exercise: the turn social construction turn, the subject of desire through discourse and the double responsibility of the critic, on itself and the world. Finally we suggest some conceptual tools that could help to undermine the rationalist inheritance that still inhabits the critical task: the relation between imaginary and desire, experience as a tension, and subjectivity as a vehicle of power, resistance and reflexivity.