Sombras da loucura: narrativas de uma vida entre instituições

Abstract

In a narrative about Mario, ways of knowing the madman and madness come to light from a non-judicial place. Legal codes, police interventions, institutional receptions, inter-institutional affections (family, shelter, school, Psychosocial Care Center - CAPS): all this will be put into (re)vision in the search to look through lines that build brief tangles (subjectivities, perhaps) . Something like a knot seems to drive the narrative: the construction of a madman from the interventions of the judiciary, health, social assistance and education. How to twist such figures in order to be able to reflect on madness and public policies in contemporary times? A clue seems to come with the story being told from Mario, an (in)flow of forces and knowledge will be brokered there. Criticism of current society, the illness produced by the overcoding of lives, subjectivities subjected in a more raw and incarnated way: (re)knowing problems that have been installed for a long time, making institutions that know madness stutter, looking for lines of escape and not focusing on ourselves , this seems to be some potential result of the screening undertaken here.