Abstract
This article is a theoretical study based on the qualitative phenomenology method about how the theory of self in Gestalt therapy can contribute to the scientific production on transgenderism. Authors such as Lévinas, Agamben, and Foucault were used as problematizing sources on the transgenderism as a social phenomenon, with the objective of developing implicit social features to the foundations of the Gestalt therapy. In order to create the framework, opinions presented in national media about the participation of a transgender athlete in a renowned tournament were analyzed using the phenomenology method of psychological reduction through the concepts of otherness, bare life, and biopower. The main results were that the theory of self has been poorly explored in its social dimension and in a reverse situation it could assist new forms of understanding it by its players. When the transgenderism is perceived through that theory, it represents a field that requires accommodation and fight for a space that could build an objective representation that could be valid and ethically integrated.
Transgenderism; Theory of Self; Gestalt Therapy; Post Modernity