ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the action of forgiveness as an ethical development of the focus on voice. It aims to make is that the different understanding of the self makes it possible to think of an ethics that exceeds forms of resentment reflected in liberal legal and political logic. The chapter deals with violent reaction of Medea and connects it to theme of "the subject of resentment" through the insights of Wendy Brown and Gilles Deleuze. It compares forgiveness with the position of feminist theory, arguing that feminism has tried to make visible the female subject fighting gender violence by focusing on the same emotion of resentment. The chapter shows how one's voice is connected to unpredictable actions such as forgiveness and this latter is understood as coming from within, after one has been able to speak what one has suffered. It attempts to go beyond masculine or feminine forms of resistance and embrace actions that spring from one's uniqueness.
