THE MADNESS AMONG THREE HISTORICAL SOURCES: PHILIPPE PINEL, FRANCISCO MONTEZUMA E GUSTAVO BARROSO

Abstract

Discourses on madness have a long documental and bibliographical trajectory, with wide insertion in scientific, medical, psychiatric, juridical, memorialist, sociological and literary narratives. Produced in the western world, especially in France, Italy, Germany, England and the United States, in the late eighteenth century, scientific ideas about madness entered Brazil, notably from the theses produced by law and medicine faculties and gained space in Ceará of century XIX, through speeches produced in newspapers and published in the form of essays. This article aims to analyze three sources on the subject of madness whose narrative genres are distinct. They are: a medical-philosophical treatise, ten letters written in a newspaper and a sociological essay, produced by the French psychiatrist Philippe Pinel, by the doctor Ceará Ribeiro Delfino Montezuma and by the writer and lawyer Ceará, Gustavo Barroso, respectively. insertion in scientific, medical, psychiatric, legal, memorialist, sociological and literary narratives. Produced in the western world, especially in France, Italy, Germany, England and the United States, at the end of the eighteenth century, scientific ideas on insanity entered Brazil, notably from the thesis produced by the faculties of law and medicine and gained space in Ceará of the nineteenth century, through speeches produced in newspapers and published in the form of essays. This article aims to analyze three sources on the subject of madness whose narrative genres are distinct. They are: a medical-philosophical treatise, ten letters written in a newspaper and a sociological essay, produced by the French psychiatrist Philippe Pinel, the doctor from Ceará, Ribeiro Delfino Montezuma, and the writer and lawyer from Ceará, Gustavo Barroso, respectively.