| dc.description.abstract | This master's thesis focuses on anxiety experiences, observing them as a combat resistance against the order of structural power. Anxiety is a worldwide phenomenon, treated at a medical and psychological level; however, this Master's thesis proposes a new approach to it, understanding it from a political and social framework that seeks to combat the hegemonic notions embedded in its definition. Thus, it is based on its exploratory and interpretative character, since it is not my desire to find an absolute and universal truth: each experience of anxiety is unique, diverse and subject to the subjectivity of each person. Rather, the main objective of this research seeks to deconstruct hegemonic narratives with the intention of making visible and offering a meeting place for our own vulnerabilities, hitherto silenced by neoliberal and capitalist power operations.
As a key methodology when observing these anxiety experiences, the research focuses on three tales that creatively address personal experiences. Thus, I propose creative writing as a valid method to explore and observe subjective experiences, with the intention of rethinking these embodied experiences and finally pose them as an alternative combat mechanism to the operations of structural power. In addition, politicize these experiences turns out to be a crucial exercise to rethink anxiety from a feminist perspective, so I will be observing these three stories of anxiety through an exercise of “close reading”. This work aims, therefore, to start from our experience, but also from our sufferings and pains, to problematize the structural violence that crosses us daily and to propose feminist strategies that help us breathe day after day. | |
