A idéia de enfermidade em um sermão de Padre Antônio Vieira: uma contribuição aos estudos sobre as idéias psicológicas no Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Fernando A. Figueira do
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13449
• topic: Paixões da alma; Enfermidade; Dinamismo psíquico; Vieira, Antonio, 1608-1697; Sermão de São Roque - Crítica e interpretação; Doenças; Psicologia - Brasil - História; Vieira, Antonio -- 1608-1697 -- Critica e interpretacao; Psicologia -- Brasil -- Historia; History of psychology; Passions of the soul; Disease; Psychic dynamism; Psychology; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA::HISTORIA DAS CIENCIAS

This work aims to analyze the relation between becoming ill and the psychic dynamism which is found in a sermon written by Father Antonio Vieira (1608-1697). Since he had considered the plague as the worst disease of his time, we will focus on the features he had emphasized concerning becoming ill, the therapy and cure. The Sermon of Saint Roque was written by Vieira in 1659 and, according to the author, Portugal was threatened by the plague which had swept across the Algarve Kingdom. Vieira evoked this saint who was traditionally known for helping and curing people that had got the plague. The image of the saint in his sermon was not only employed for offering the cure to the ones who got the disease but also for offering a model of conduct which reflected a kind of knowledge concerning the relation between disease and psychic dynamism. In the description of the saint s misfortunes including the plague, Vieira emphasized the interaction between what was called primary and secondary causes that reflected desire-transgression-disease. Concerning primary causes, punishment revealed a man s fault; as for the secondary causes, air corruption; its change from a vital to a fatal element, would bring disease. This would show man s condition in the world, his loneliness and his potentiality for meeting again the Being