THE "POWER" IN WOMEN'S SPEECH: THE HETEROGENEITY DISCURSIVE AND THE FEMININE IDENTITY IN THE POST-MODERNITY

Talking about the female role into the post-modernity context is touching a nerve, since we need to think about its constitution in a moment of gender crisis in which the identity frontiers are changing. The discourse (taking into consideration the symbolic language) enables us to constitute ourselves as subjects and, moreover, we are named by the "Other" on a gender designation basis. Having all these in mind, the present paper intends to think the female identity based on the female discourse having in sight the heterogeneity in addition to the concept developed in the French line of the Discourse Analyses (DA - 3rd phase). For this purpose, we interviewed women that present heterogeneous profiles in order to analyze those interviews bringing some DA conceptions into focus; mainly of them concerning the constitutive heterogeneity and interdiscourse as well as some psychoanalyst aspects connected to the subject constitution. This paper deals specifically with the occurrences of the verb "can" into the women's speeches. Their enouncements demonstrate the heterogeneous constitution of the female discourse. Besides, we intend to see the configuration of the female subject as a heterogeneous being constituted on the basis of the "Other's" discourse. We are also trying to find out who this "Other", which constitutes the named subject in a contradictory way, is. We aim at verifying how the "Other", which is not a male subject, works, that is, how the female signifies the male discourse into her sayings having in mind an interdiscourse that is ordered from memories extracted from the patriarchal society for further relation to the post-modern one.