Resumen de The concept of abjection in Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl (2015)
This paper deals with the concept of abjection developed by the psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, together with sexuality, performativity and cross-dressed identities in a contemporary Anglophone film: Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl (2015). After an introduction to the ‘abjection’ theory, we examine in detail the concepts such as performativity, abjection, and cross-dressing as represented in the film of the corpus. There is a detailed description of the different scenes of the film in order to show and develop the evolution of the main character, Einar Weneger, in his process of sexually abjected metamorphosis; and also, the implications of this change in his wife, Gerda. So, therefore, not only the main character is analysed but also, the repercussions that this change of identity have in the environment of the sufferer. The film analyses: firslty, the prevailing identity as a man, sexually and gendered. Secondly, the superposition between both identities, as man and as a woman. And finally, the complete identification with Lili, performing and being identified as feminine gender and sex. The epistemological foundations include Feminist theories with an emphasis in the theorization of Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva and Lucas Platero. Furthermore, this paper uses for its practical analysis the postulations of Foucault’s biopower.
