Thesis Chapters by Shubert Silveira
Historical Epistemology is currently a growing movement within the Science studies and has obtain... more Historical Epistemology is currently a growing movement within the Science studies and has obtained recognition by the most important philosophers of science in recent decades.
This thesis is based on the approaches of the North American philosopher Arnold Davidson, who having worked with Michel Foucault is a clear heir of the type of studies that are identified by their approach to the emergent conditions of concepts and scientific objects.
Davidson, in his book The Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts (2001), makes a study of the conditions of possibility of knowledge and scientific practice around sexuality, given in time, in order to understand the mechanisms by virtue of which the experience of the normativity is produced, the identification of the deviations and the start-up of the corresponding rhetorical-epistemic corrections.
Davidson states that sexuality emerges in a style of psychiatric reasoning that is articulated in the last third of the nineteenth century and moves from the style of pathological reasoning that dominated the medical thought of the time. Sexuality comes together with a series of new concepts, mainly sexual instinct, which are articulated to it and give rise to novel classifications that create new classes of people, including the perverse.
The sexual instinct, for nineteenth-century psychiatry, was settled everywhere and nowhere, and was independent of the very structure of the external genital organs, which could only be instruments at the service of that instinct.
The present thesis delves into Davidson's ideas that focused on his work on the concept of sexuality without deepening in perversion. Here we seek to reconstruct the conditions of possibility of psychiatric knowledge that made possible both the emergence of the concept of perversion and that of perverse subjects as suffering from the deviation of their sexual instinct. In the same way, we point out, detail and analyze social, scientific and philosophical phenomena that gave rise to a new class of people: the perverse.
Papers by Shubert Silveira
Variaciones Borges, 2022
La extensa crítica sobre la obra de Borges se ha centrado en su vínculo con la vanguardia, la lit... more La extensa crítica sobre la obra de Borges se ha centrado en su vínculo con la vanguardia, la literatura inglesa, la herencia de Kafka, Quevedo, Dante o Shakespeare; sin embargo, un terreno estudiado aunque no del todo desarrollado ha sido el nexo del escritor argentino con la tradición clásica, tanto griega como latina. Este trabajo pretende señalar algunos vínculos entre los textos de Borges y la filosofía del autor romano Tito Lucrecio Caro (c. 95-55 a. C.) a partir de su única obra conocida, De rerum natura (De la naturaleza de las cosas).
[SIC], 2021
Este trabajo pretende realizar una lectura de la novela La Virgen de los sicarios de Fernando Val... more Este trabajo pretende realizar una lectura de la novela La Virgen de los sicarios de Fernando Vallejo haciendo foco en la visión que se ofrece de la ciudad de Medellín y en específico cómo esta se divide en dos ciudades dentro de un mismo lugar: por un lado la Medellín del valle, heredera de la cultura y la civilización; y por otro la Medellín (Medallo o Metrallo) de las montañas y sus comunas, heredera de la violencia. A través de estas páginas nos detenemos en los fenómenos de la modernidad colombiana que produjeron el ascenso de la figura del sicario y cómo este es representado en la literatura colombiana de la cual Vallejo es uno de los exponentes más importantes. De igual modo, reflejamos cómo en la trama de la obra de Vallejo hay un importante nomadismo y un divagar de los personajes por la ciudad, en medio de los laberintos de una modernización descontrolada y de los cambios drásticos del lenguaje, los cuales son contrastados incesantemente con la infancia (percibida como idílica) del narrador en una Medellín que ya no existe y que jamás volverá a ser.
Teoría y Crítica de la Psicología, 2021
Este artículo indaga en los trabajos de los psiquiatras más importantes de Europa y Norteamérica ... more Este artículo indaga en los trabajos de los psiquiatras más importantes de Europa y Norteamérica de fines del siglo XIX y principios del XX a fin de identificar la emergencia del concepto de heterosexualidad, el cual surgió en muchos de los trabajos médicos como un diagnóstico más que definía un tipo de patología específica. En la obra de importantes psiquiatras como Krafft Ebing o Kiernan encontramos definiciones de la heterosexualidad que distan mucho de ser las que le damos hoy en día a ese término. Siguiendo los planteos de Arnold Davidson e Ian Hacking, entendemos que hasta bien avanzada la segunda mitad del siglo XIX no existían ni homosexuales ni tampoco heterosexuales. En tanto todavía no se habían prop uesto tales clasificaciones ni se habían erigido las formas de comprender a los sujetos desde la óptica de lo que hoy entendemos como hom osexualidad o heterosexualidad.
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Thesis Chapters by Shubert Silveira
This thesis is based on the approaches of the North American philosopher Arnold Davidson, who having worked with Michel Foucault is a clear heir of the type of studies that are identified by their approach to the emergent conditions of concepts and scientific objects.
Davidson, in his book The Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts (2001), makes a study of the conditions of possibility of knowledge and scientific practice around sexuality, given in time, in order to understand the mechanisms by virtue of which the experience of the normativity is produced, the identification of the deviations and the start-up of the corresponding rhetorical-epistemic corrections.
Davidson states that sexuality emerges in a style of psychiatric reasoning that is articulated in the last third of the nineteenth century and moves from the style of pathological reasoning that dominated the medical thought of the time. Sexuality comes together with a series of new concepts, mainly sexual instinct, which are articulated to it and give rise to novel classifications that create new classes of people, including the perverse.
The sexual instinct, for nineteenth-century psychiatry, was settled everywhere and nowhere, and was independent of the very structure of the external genital organs, which could only be instruments at the service of that instinct.
The present thesis delves into Davidson's ideas that focused on his work on the concept of sexuality without deepening in perversion. Here we seek to reconstruct the conditions of possibility of psychiatric knowledge that made possible both the emergence of the concept of perversion and that of perverse subjects as suffering from the deviation of their sexual instinct. In the same way, we point out, detail and analyze social, scientific and philosophical phenomena that gave rise to a new class of people: the perverse.
Papers by Shubert Silveira
This thesis is based on the approaches of the North American philosopher Arnold Davidson, who having worked with Michel Foucault is a clear heir of the type of studies that are identified by their approach to the emergent conditions of concepts and scientific objects.
Davidson, in his book The Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts (2001), makes a study of the conditions of possibility of knowledge and scientific practice around sexuality, given in time, in order to understand the mechanisms by virtue of which the experience of the normativity is produced, the identification of the deviations and the start-up of the corresponding rhetorical-epistemic corrections.
Davidson states that sexuality emerges in a style of psychiatric reasoning that is articulated in the last third of the nineteenth century and moves from the style of pathological reasoning that dominated the medical thought of the time. Sexuality comes together with a series of new concepts, mainly sexual instinct, which are articulated to it and give rise to novel classifications that create new classes of people, including the perverse.
The sexual instinct, for nineteenth-century psychiatry, was settled everywhere and nowhere, and was independent of the very structure of the external genital organs, which could only be instruments at the service of that instinct.
The present thesis delves into Davidson's ideas that focused on his work on the concept of sexuality without deepening in perversion. Here we seek to reconstruct the conditions of possibility of psychiatric knowledge that made possible both the emergence of the concept of perversion and that of perverse subjects as suffering from the deviation of their sexual instinct. In the same way, we point out, detail and analyze social, scientific and philosophical phenomena that gave rise to a new class of people: the perverse.