A mística como dessubjetivação e impropriedade de si:

análise de um relato sobre a monja Salê

Abstract

The simulated madness of the nun Salê signals the inadequacy of self as a key to recognition. Her indeterminacy starts from a movement of exit and ecstasy that permeates the story about her. In this sense, the issue of desubjectivation and the impropriety of the self in the crowd, from a public and common body, conceptually expresses the social scum of other dissidents, such as madmen. The nun works and live where waste is produced — in the convent kitchen —, which is one of the places of social scum, a place of the crowd. In the abyss of the crowd, her public body inverts what would be an identity appropriation of individuality. Therefore, her encounter with the Other strip from herself and puts she in helplessness and dispossession. Helplessness breaks with the identity predicates of liberal recognition that names individualizing attributes underlying the concept of “person”, presupposing an identity normativity of self-properties with its contractual bias. In this way, improper indeterminacy as an inexhaustible condition of subjectivity contributes to rethinking identity policies of recognition.