Abstract

MARTINEZ DIAZ, María. The genesis of alienism: a metaphor of the law. An approach to The Alienist by Machado de Assis. Káñina [online]. 2020, vol.44, n.1, pp.43-69. ISSN 2215-2636.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rk.v44i1.41069.

In this paper, it develops a reading of the story El Alienista, from Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. It is proposed an initial approach to the analysis of the literary text and the analysis of this writer who is so important and has been so neglected in the costarican academy. We work around “madness” but specially around psychiatry. The institution that has tried to dominate madness. Thus, we will analysed the emergence of alienism as a discourse, as an institution, and as a power that has been legitimated in the building of the “alienated” figure, to finally shut it.

Keywords : Brazilian Literature; science; psychiatry; power; madness..

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