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This article explores how was identified and evaluated the emotional states of women who, seized by strong emotions, reacted in a violent and disorderly way executing "excesses" considered outside the bounds of law in Captaincy General of Chile during the 18th century. To do so, it examines judicial records involving violent behaviors, interpersonal disputes and family conflicts in which mood was scrutinized to explain what predisposed the person's actions. It delves into how women's passional excess or disturbed emotions were described, comparing it to the descriptions of men acting under similar predisposition to find out patterns behind this identification and the evaluation made by those involved in the altercation, judges, witnesses and lawyers. The article suggests that Chilean culture identified in "furor" and "fury", translated into reactions that denoted "voracity" and "discomposure", a seed of inner instability that was close to madness or that could be assimilated to it. This state of internal disturbance could affect both men and women, although the evaluation on its significance was in each case different. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article develops an examination of the main aspects to be considered in the analysis that the philosophies of G. Canguilhem and M. Foucault devote to the problem of madness. The text stipulates the philosophical conditions of approach that both authors elaborate on to think about the problem of norms in the vital and social sphere. The question: what is crazy? then becomes the question of the social and political practices that have been developed concerning madmen and madness, evidencing the relevance that Canguilhem and Foucault give to the problem of norms, either in an ontological and/or historical-political framework of understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Madness and collective are two terms that have marched in a disjunct way in history. Its most obvious expression was the construction of the psychiatric asylum, located far from the life of the city. The most current incarnation is that of the individual who lives in the street, within the city, but outside of all ties. These individual lives a new exile without asylum in the collective. From my work as a psychologist in a social center in Paris, I ask myself how to integrate the difference of madness, without erasing it in the name of an ideal, inherent to this - and all - collective. I show that collective and madness are structurally disjunct, but for an institution to be alive, the two terms must be inseparable. The collective must be sufficiently docile, so that everyone can appropriate it as a means of life. If the collective is necessary for every speaking being, it is indispensable for those who cannot find a typical solution to the problems posed by their body and the problems it poses to the social body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, an analysis is carried out of the way in which the discourses and counter-discourses around madness are presented in the novel Nadie me verá llorar by Cristina Rivera Garza, based on the elements of analysis referred to the order of the discourse, the subject, the device, the archaeologies of knowledge, literature and the technologies of the self, mainly from the perspective of Michel Foucault. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La Castañeda was one of the most emblematic spaces in the history of Mexican psychiatry, founded by Porfirio Díaz on September 9th, 1910, and its buildings and clinical records were inhabited by women and men of all social classes. However, there are other inhabitants who are rarely mentioned: children. This article aims to be a first approach to the rescue of the history of childhood in La Castañeda between 1940-1945 in a space that represented for the inhabitants of Mexico City the entrance to hell, the great "Locopolis" of the City. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to explore Derrida's approach to transcendental phenomenology as found at the intersection of two contemporary texts (one on Foucault and the other on Heidegger). In relation to the first, we inquire to what extent or under what conditions transcendental reduction can be associated with madness, silence and violence. In relation to the second, we inquire to what extent nonematicity would render transcendental phenomenology unsubmissive to the schema of Vorhandenheit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Jose Siles writes a review of Fernando Ceballos's book " The asylum: chronicles of a logic that colonizes subjectivities". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the dramatic function of María Josefa within the structure of La Casa de Bernarda Alba. By portraying her as "mad," the author portrays her as a character who rebels against the tyranny of her daughter Bernarda. In this construction of the character of María Josefa, there is a certain similarity with those "madmen" and "madwomen" in Spanish Golden Age and English Elizabethan theatre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The character of Ophelia has inspired multiple artistic representations and feminist critiques. I aim to contribute to the interest aroused by Ophelia by showing her as a heroine who draws a world like a prison which, with her death, she faces more drastically than Hamlet. In the introduction, I will analyze the character's evolution in Shakespeare's work using the Aguilar edition. In the second part, I will present a feminist reading of Ophelia. In conclusion, against feminist readings that place her in a fictional story or that portray her only as a victim of patriarchy, I will show her as a disengaged heroine who speaks to us of our human condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Foucault hit Psychiatry hard with his History of Madness. He showed the meticulous exercises of violence that took place in the General Hospital of Paris in the name of science and normality. From the rejection to such normality, he gave his rejection to psychoanalysis, understood as normalizing. From his aestheticization of madness, assumed as the revealing discourse of modern Anti-reason, he passed to the consideration of the psychoanalytic device as analogous to that of the Christian confession, and to the belief that the cultural weight given to sex did not come from drives, it was purely discursive effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En este artículo se plantea que el desarrollo del tema de la locura en Memorias postumas de Blas Cubas del brasileiro Machado de Assis es una adaptación del cuadro teórico de los planteamientos de Erasmo en Elogio. Un examen del diálogo entre estas dos obras muestra que no sólo Memorias hace referencias directas e indirecta a Elogio, sino que también se apropia de los propósitos encubiertos en esa obra que fueron estudiados por Foucault en Madness and Civilization. Esto lo lleva a cabo a través de un efecto especular por medio del cual la crítica hecha en Elogio contra el conocimiento de su tiempo se replantea y refleja en Memorias, manifestándose en un cuestionamiento de la sociedad de su tiempo y sus nociones del conocimiento y otros conceptos tales como razón y locura. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents a reflection, in times of ideological revisionism in Brazil, on the issue of insanity as a practical concept, elevating it to a political tool. For the argumentative scope, we resort to Foucault due to the fact that his "History of Insanity", his doctoral thesis, is a landmark for understanding the concept formation and the development of mental health politicies in the whole world. More than that, the understanding of the concept formation of insanity involves knowing the history of Epistemology and how knowledge is a fact, itself, political. In the end, we hope to awake the reader to the use of the concept of insanity as appropriate to understand his historical moment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to carry out a comparative exercise between the comparisons made by me and those made by the Toba people (qom) of the Argentinean Chaco. I will try to elucidate the tools with which they and I made these comparisons possible. I will refer to three events that occurred during my fieldwork carried out from 1997 to the present. These cases are related to the context of that we may call as «madness», and that have ontological implications. The events show the contrasts explained by my indigenous interlocutors between a non indigenous and a qom way of conceiving madnessbecoming- other. These ethnographic cases will allow us to reflect upon the challenges involved in concentrating on the quid of the comparison from the Toba point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text discusses the problem of the effects of rational foundation thinking on identity and culture, as well as the struggle for hegemony that derives from the conditions that reason imposes, in order to question the boundaries between thought, culture and reason. In order to do so, I analyze the particular case of Antonin Artaud's trip to Mexico in 1936, through the concepts of the discussion developed by Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Žižek on the relationships between thought and madness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Democritus has been labeled "the laughing philosopher". The purpose of this article is to reflect on the reasons that led this genius to laugh. The encounter with Hippocrates, the famous physician, leads to questioning concepts such as madness, sanity and true knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the political thought of two European Renaissance men, Machiavelli and Erasmus. The work of these two humanist authors reflects a time of enormous changes. While for Machiavelli, politics is autonomous with respect to religion, for Erasmus a religious meaning and a religious purpose are essential to the act of governing. In Machiavelli's perspective, politics is a praxis guided by a pragmatic goal to conquer, sustain and increase political power in order to achieve state glory. For Erasmus, politics cannot be separated from a higher ethical purpose. In his view, politics is ultimately at the service of the spiritual realm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Without knowing each other, and despite the age difference between them, German authors Georg Büchner and Wilheim Waiblinger shared the same interest in one topic: geniality related to insanity. Both, Büchner and Waiblinger, found themselves seduced by the cases of two German writers who suffered schizophrenia: dramatist Jakob Michael Lenz and poet Friedrich Hölderlin respectively. As a result, Büchner as well as Waiblinger decided to create their own versions of the above mentioned mentally ill artists. The first wrote a short novel called Lenz (1839) while the second, a fictionalized biography called Vida, poesía y locura de Fried Hölderlin (1831). This investigation analyses these fictions in order to identify: if certain similar behaviors are consequences of the schizophrenia illness; if there are patterns which are often repeated between genius people, and in such case, which of these are seen in Lenz and Hölderlin's characters; and finally, which elements are from Büchner and Waiblinger's artistic and personal creations. In addition, through the analysis of these cases, we get to know the ways in which Psychiatry may be help to the field of literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we propose to address two literary works by the Italian writer Alda Merini, La terra santa and L'altra verità. Diario di una diversa, from a feminist perspective. We aim to research how these texts contribute to expose certain forms of captivity to which women are subjected because of their gender. We will delve into her writing with the intention of finding in it a possible emancipatory potential that reveals said oppression and is able to show the hidden face of certain subaltern existences. For our analysis, we will use the theoretical postulates of Franca Basaglia in Mujer, locura y sociedad and those of Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos in Los cautiverios de las mujeres. Madresposas, monjas, putas, presas y locas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on an analysis of different versions and translations of Freud's article "Die Verneinung" (1925), the authors examine the fundamental terms and concepts employed by Freud, which allows casting a new light on some clinical phenomena and diagnostic issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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During the last third of the nineteenth century, Buenos Aires physicians dealt extensively with hysterical pathology, especially among the female population. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the various theoretical fabrications elaborated by those professionals about the disease. After recognizing a first set of writings in which a certain morbid autonomy was not granted to the condition, the theoretical frameworks prevailing in the subsequent works are described in detail. Special attention is paid to clinical devices used by doctors in their practice, since it is assumed that those devices had a clear impact on the ways the pathology was understood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]