Irina Toma
Abstract
Most perspectives on the postmodern subject revolve around the issue of sexuality and its
relevance in the constitution of the subject. Irrespective of the definition we give to sexuality and
its related representations on the human body, the critical genealogy of the political practices
shows that, in gendering, the body needs to be accompanied by a theory of the psyche. This paper
will focus on the intertwinings of political practice and gender constitution and identification, in
order to account for a performative stance of the “I” in subjective experience.