The Alienist: madness, power and science
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Data de Publicação: | 1993 |
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Resumo: | This article analyzes Machado de Assis short story The Alienist. Centered on the delusions of Simão Bacamarte, a psysician and psychiatrist, in this fiction are reflected the impasses and intentions of the scientific conceptions of the nineteenth century, particularly of the Positivism which has profound links with the birth of the Humanities. On the on hand, the thirst for a scientifically sound explanation of its object, in this case Madness, and on the other the right he attributes himself of arbitrating on Madness and the Mad, and of acing upon these arbitrations with complete and total powers. Machado de Assis' work denounces the link between science and power, as well as the appropriation by men of science of the right each individual possesses of telling his or her own truth. This conducts the story to its final irony: there seem to be more madness in the pretension of establishing clear-cut limits between Reason and Madness than in losing oneself between these proposed limits. |
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The Alienist: madness, power and scienceO alienista: loucura, poder e ciênciaCiênciaLoucuraPoderO AlienistaMachado de AssisPositivismoScienceMadnessPowerThe AlienistMachado de AssisPositivismThis article analyzes Machado de Assis short story The Alienist. Centered on the delusions of Simão Bacamarte, a psysician and psychiatrist, in this fiction are reflected the impasses and intentions of the scientific conceptions of the nineteenth century, particularly of the Positivism which has profound links with the birth of the Humanities. On the on hand, the thirst for a scientifically sound explanation of its object, in this case Madness, and on the other the right he attributes himself of arbitrating on Madness and the Mad, and of acing upon these arbitrations with complete and total powers. Machado de Assis' work denounces the link between science and power, as well as the appropriation by men of science of the right each individual possesses of telling his or her own truth. This conducts the story to its final irony: there seem to be more madness in the pretension of establishing clear-cut limits between Reason and Madness than in losing oneself between these proposed limits.Este artigo analisa o conto de Machado de Assis, O Alienista. Ficção centrada nos delírios de Simão Bacamarte, médico-psiquiatra, nela estão referidas as pretensões e impasses das concepções científicas do século XIX, em particular do Positivismo, que tem vínculos profundos com o nascimento das Ciências Humanas. De um lado, a sede de explicação rigorosa do seu objeto, no caso, a Loucura e, de outro, o direito que se arroga de dizer a verdade a respeito da Loucura e do Louco e de agir sobre ele com plenos e legítimos direitos. A obra de Machado denuncia o vínculo entre ciência e poder bem como a ursurpação, pelo homem de ciência, do direito que cada um tem de dizer a sua própria verdade. O que conduz à ironia final: parece haver mais loucura na pretensão de estabelecer com nitidez a linha divisória entre Razão e Loucura do que em perder-se entre seus supostos limites.Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas1993-12-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://www.revistas.usp.br/ts/article/view/8495310.1590/ts.v5i1/2.84953Tempo Social; v. 5 n. 1/2 (1993); 145-160Tempo Social; Vol. 5 No. 1/2 (1993); 145-160Tempo Social; Vol. 5 Núm. 1/2 (1993); 145-1601809-45540103-2070reponame:Tempo Social (Online)instname:Universidade de São Paulo (USP)instacron:USPporhttps://www.revistas.usp.br/ts/article/view/84953/87681Copyright (c) 2015 Tempo Socialinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessGomes, Roberto2015-06-16T11:34:26Zoai:revistas.usp.br:article/84953Revistahttps://www.revistas.usp.br/ts/indexPUBhttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.phptemposoc@edu.usp.br1809-45540103-2070opendoar:2015-06-16T11:34:26Tempo Social (Online) - Universidade de São Paulo (USP)false |
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The Alienist: madness, power and science O alienista: loucura, poder e ciência |
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The Alienist: madness, power and science |
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The Alienist: madness, power and science Gomes, Roberto Ciência Loucura Poder O Alienista Machado de Assis Positivismo Science Madness Power The Alienist Machado de Assis Positivism |
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The Alienist: madness, power and science |
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The Alienist: madness, power and science |
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The Alienist: madness, power and science |
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Gomes, Roberto |
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Gomes, Roberto |
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Gomes, Roberto |
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Ciência Loucura Poder O Alienista Machado de Assis Positivismo Science Madness Power The Alienist Machado de Assis Positivism |
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Ciência Loucura Poder O Alienista Machado de Assis Positivismo Science Madness Power The Alienist Machado de Assis Positivism |
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This article analyzes Machado de Assis short story The Alienist. Centered on the delusions of Simão Bacamarte, a psysician and psychiatrist, in this fiction are reflected the impasses and intentions of the scientific conceptions of the nineteenth century, particularly of the Positivism which has profound links with the birth of the Humanities. On the on hand, the thirst for a scientifically sound explanation of its object, in this case Madness, and on the other the right he attributes himself of arbitrating on Madness and the Mad, and of acing upon these arbitrations with complete and total powers. Machado de Assis' work denounces the link between science and power, as well as the appropriation by men of science of the right each individual possesses of telling his or her own truth. This conducts the story to its final irony: there seem to be more madness in the pretension of establishing clear-cut limits between Reason and Madness than in losing oneself between these proposed limits. |
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1993 |
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Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas |
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Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas |
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