The narcissistic pact of cisgenderity: psychoanalytic digressions of the offense of nomination

Abstract

According to Cida Bento, whiteness produces alliances in order to preserve itself by means of a narcissistic pact, and we understand that cisgenderity is immersed in the narcissism of whiteness, as Viviane Vergueiro postulates. We developed the idea of a narcissistic pact of cisgenderity. Placing ourselves in the position of analysts and affirming ourselves as “the monster that listens to you”, based on Paul B. Preciado. Preciado, we are faced with a reaction of rejection to the naming of the norm, since institutional cisgenderity uses the denial of its conceptualization as a fundamental strategy of its narcissistic pact; in other words, the norm is naturalized and thus aims to preserve itself. Our aim is to show that, through narcissistic alliances and refusal, modern/colonial normativities self-preserve and present themselves, among other spaces, in psychoanalytic knowledge. In order to follow this path, our methodology is a bibliographical review, through which we associate the Freudian notion of narcissism with the definition of narcissistic pact, by Cida Bento; with Otherness, by Grada Kilomba; with the offense of naming, by Pfeil & Pfeil. In this way, we conclude that cisgenderism, as a structure of domination, operates through narcissistic pacts and ego defense mechanisms, attributing Otherness to corporealities that do not reflect it.