“Because they ignored my solitude as much as me”: the autobiography of Maura Lopes Cançado

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Stephanie Caroline Ferreira de
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Lima, Aluísio Ferreira de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Psicologia (Fortaleza. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.ufc.br/psicologiaufc/article/view/6657
• topic: Narrative; autobiography; social psychology; asylum; Maura Lopes Cançado.; Narrativa; autobiografia; psicologia social; manicômio; Maura Lopes Cançado.; Análise teórico-crítica de narrativa autobiográfica

The present manuscript is an analysis of the narrative of Maura Lopes Cançado in the book "Hospício é deus: Diario I", originally published in 1965. For that, were articulated the careful reading of the autobiographical diary and the theoretical references related to Social Psychology, especially the contributions of Theodor W. Adorno, Giorgio Agamben and Judith Butler. In the form of an essay, this article was divided into four parts, which present: a) the contextualisation of the diary, b) the (auto)biography of Maura Lopes Cançado, c) the narratives about the condition of her hospitalization at the Hospital Gustavo Riedel, And d) the appointments about what can be apprehended concerning the narrative of the author. This itinerary allowed the discussion of the precariousness experienced by Maura Cançado as a woman who did not correspond to the moral and social expectations of her time, articulated with all the effects that the psychiatric frame produced in her hospitalizations in the madhouse.