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Title: | Torrente de loucos: a linguagem da degeneração na psiquiatria portuguesa da transição do século XIX | Other Titles: | Torrent of madmen: The language of degeneration in Portuguese psychiatry at the close of the 19th century | Authors: | Quintais, Luís | Keywords: | psiquiatria; degeneração; psicanálise; século XIX; Portugal; psychiatry; degeneration; psychoanalysis; 19th century; Portugal | Issue Date: | 2008 | Publisher: | Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz | Serial title, monograph or event: | Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos | Volume: | 15 | Issue: | 2 | Abstract: | O propósito do presente artigo é
mostrar a importância de um modelo
das acções humanas fortemente
naturalizado que, tomando por eixo
uma explicação hereditária, terá sido
amplamente usado pela psiquiatria
portuguesa da transição do século XIX,
em continuidade com o que se passava
no contexto europeu. A ‘degeneração’
instituiu-se como uma espécie de mapa
a partir do qual se classificou e
descreveu experiências com contornos
eventualmente ameaçadores para uma
certa concepção de ordem social e
política. Fenómenos vários,
nosologicamente descritos de formas
diferenciadas, viriam a ser integrados
na linguagem da degeneração. O seu
carácter expansivo e pretensamente
metateórico viria a estar implicado na
sua agonia, vindo a ser
progressivamente substituído por um
outro modelo, a psicanálise. The scope of this article is to show the importance of a highly naturalized model of human actions that, taking as its pivotal point a hereditary explanation, was widely used by Portuguese psychiatry at the close of the 19th century, in continuity with what was happening in the European context. ‘Degeneration’ was instituted as a species of chart, based on which experiences were classified and described with occasionally threatening contours for a certain conception of the social and political order. Various phenomena, nosologically described in differentiated forms, came to be integrated into the language of degeneration. Its expansive and supposed metatheoretical character became involved in its death throes, coming to be progressively replaced by another model, psychoanalysis. |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/110447 | ISSN: | 0104-5970 | DOI: | 10.1590/S0104-59702008000200007 | Rights: | openAccess |
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