Narcissistic pact and disposable subjectivity in childhoods

Abstract

This article examines the structural contradiction between the technocratic project of immortality inscribed in Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity and the condition of disposable subjectivity (YORK, 2026) that characterizes trans and travesti childhoods in the contemporary Western context. Mobilizing Piera Aulagnier's psychoanalysis — specifically the concepts of violence of interpretation and the narcissistic pact —, articulated with Freudian narcissism and Sara Wagner York’s transepistemology, the paper argues that the technological promise of an infinite life operates as a symptom of a narcissistic pact that unequally distributes the right to existence: while certain bodies are projected beyond death, others are produced as disposable from the cradle. The endemic depression and borderline configurations that mark trans childhoods are read here not as individual pathologies, but as clinical effects of an interpretative violence that precedes the birth of the subject.