PERSONAL IDENTITY AND THE CHALLENGES OF ITS FULL PROTECTION: AN ESSAY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EXPANSION OF PERSONALITY RIGHTS

Abstract

This research aims to analyze aspects related to personal identity, especially in what consists of the conceptualization of this right of personality and the way it is understood, not only by doctrine, but by legislation and jurisprudence in Brazil. The importance of the theme is due to the need to broaden the understanding of personal identity as a right of personality and its repercussions on the full formation of each individual, as well as its effective protection. In this sense, the present study seeks to point out personal identity as an autonomous right of personality, to analyze its protection through the study of legislation and jurisprudence, including foreign ones, and to identify the possible and consequent threats to other rights of personality in the face of a possible legal-protective deficit of personal identity. To this end, the study uses the hypothetical-deductive method, with bibliographic analysis as the main methodological procedure.