La Celestina o la normatividad fallida

Abstract

Within a materialist and morally chaotic society, the characters of La Celestina thus construct their subjectivity through gender and social transgressions deviating from conventions and culture. In this sense, this essay explores the idea of a failed normativity and how those social disorders end up dramatically. By failed normativity, I mean the  subversion of patriarchy with regards to gender, social issues or race due to the deficient and delimited Law of the Father. Resorting to Judith Butler, Hartunian or Swietlicki’s theories on feminism, I will focus on feminine and masculine lack as part of the protagonists identity and how this lack emerges from the boundaries of a chaotic system whose tragic ending is previously anticipated.