Who are we, crazy people?! An essay on the limits and possibilities in historical reconstitution of life trajectories of people confined as insane

• Autor(a) principal: Wadi, Yonissa Marmitt
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/6411
• topic: Sujeito louco; Trajetórias de vida; Pessoas comuns; Mad subject; Trajectories of life; Ordinary people

This text shows a reflection about the limits and possibilities of the historical reconstitution of trajectories of life of ordinary people, it is searching to extend the historical understanding about the constitution of mad subject. The base of the reflection is the research experience that resulted in my thesis Louca pela vida, a história de Pierina, a woman that was interned as insane person, after being accused in criminal proceeding due to having drowned her little daughter. The thesis resulted of an exercise of critical interpretation about the possibilities that any text and any life show for its reader. I explain thus, the sources and the research problematic one as it was constituted, in the constant exchange between the theoretical references and the proper sources.