“Falling into Transvestility”: A Phenomenological Perspective of the Transvestite Experience and Corporality

Authors

  • Edmar Henrique Davi USP
  • Maria Alves Toledo Bruns USP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v19i3.30016

Keywords:

transvestite life-world, body, phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty

Abstract

This paper aims to understand the meanings and senses that three transvestites attribute to the process
of body transformation. Transvestites submit themselves to silicone implants, hormone administration
among other practices in order to transform their body. We find in the discussions of philosopher
Maurice Merleau-Ponty and in the phenomenological method the support for analyzing the
experiences of our three collaborators, who are 30 on average and belong to class D. Our
comprehensive analysis indicated three categories: “Initial experience”; “Building the body” and “The
transvestite life world”. These categories enabled us to view the transvestite corporality as a
substratum of a peculiar and subversive subjectivity that is balanced between the feminine and the
masculine, the pain and the pleasure.

Author Biographies

Edmar Henrique Davi, USP

Psicólogo, Doutorando em Psicologia, membro do grupo Sexualidevida/CNPq e bolsista CAPES.

Maria Alves Toledo Bruns, USP

Docente e pesquisadora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto – USP.

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Published

2016-11-09

How to Cite

Davi, E. H., & Bruns, M. A. T. (2016). “Falling into Transvestility”: A Phenomenological Perspective of the Transvestite Experience and Corporality. Interação Em Psicologia, 19(3). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v19i3.30016

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 3 (2015)

Section

Research Reports

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