Religião e psicanálise no Brasil contemporâneo: novas e velhas Weltanschauungen

Abstract

In this article, I follow the line of recent Czech feminist critique discussing the impact of transition ideologies on early post-socialist feminist theory in the Czech Republic (with ramifications for Central and Eastern Europe). Employing the approach of Kiossev and Buden, I further study the transition rhetoric employed in the works of early Czech and Slovak feminists. I argue that it was the set of rhetorical figures and modes of speech navigating their discourse which resulted in limitations on their political imagination. Furthermore, I frame this critique within the larger context of the institutionalization of feminist discourses in CEE to highlight possible power lines which structured the process of the domestication of feminist theories and gender analysis in the region. Finally, I propose that pursing analysis on the intersection of these two critical lines opens avenues for the renegotiation of possibilities that the category of gender may offer when cautiously informed by the post-socialist context which, by definition, questions the political coding of the feminist project.