La re-construcción del sujeto. Procesos de agencia y subjetivación en las prácticas de corporización

Abstract

Conceptualizing corporeality nowadays, as it is constructed in a primary school education context, involves a revision of quite a few notions, such as subjectivity, subject, identity, body, and bodily care. These concepts, approached from poststructuralist and feminist perspectives, challenge some definite and stationary categories, if we aim at the needs of possible subjects. Maybe the old idea of subject construction stemming from "self care" in ancient Greece deserves to be reconsidered, as care for the body, in agreement with current times, never losing sight of the ultimate goal which is the construction of free subjects. Bodies would be approached from a concern for diet or nutrition (concrete details in caring in relation to a broad view of body and soul), economy (relation between self and social activity) and erotica (relation between care for self and loving relations). In this article, I intend to set some questioning by leading my readers to reconsider empowering and agency of bodily subjects beyond the heavy limiting load of social structures.