Love and the Body as Norma

a phenomenological-hermeneutic understanding of homophobia

Abstract

In the contemporary world, there are numerous experiences of violence with individuals who transgress moral norms. The present work aims to carry out a phenomenological-hermeneutic analysis of the experience of fear by a homosexual couple, tracing a critical look at the perspectives of knowledge that are born in the western world. Thus, we want to build a way of seeing that can contemplate love and desire as historical phenomena, contributing to a way of understanding human experiences contemplating their character of transit, constant movement. It is concluded that fear is articulated from the historical possibilities of a world that gives meanings to ways-of-being, that is, fear is an intentional phenomenon; it is also understood that violence against non-normative alterities can be linked to a deviation from relating to its character of indeterminacy and ontological fragility, thus, facing ways of life so far from the adequacy that the western world advocates makes it possible the phenomenon of pre-ontological inclusion.