Encounters Do Matter: On Unveiling the Otherness in Oneself

The analytical focus of this research aims to explore the potential disruptive effect of encounters over one’s inner normativities and how a “practice” of re-flexivity is enhanced by the interactional order in which the usual and uncon-scious flow of exchanged signs might be interrupted or broken, generating the emotional commentaries that becomes part of one’s inner talk. A novel dimension in the analysis of gender inner structures is introduced through the description of the mechanism from which a subjectified subject could trigger the “politics of truth” and “operation of critique” of both his/hers external inner normativities. Through the observations and discourses that came from the encounters that occurred with sex workers, it was possible to disrupt the ontological aim of a hegemonic narrative that, not only establishes the exclusionary limits of discourse about sex workers but also the inclusion-ary limits of discourse about how women are.