A loucura e o feminino na obra de Florbela Espanca.

Abstract

The of aim of the present work is to establish a relationship between madness and female submission as a result of male power, widely portrayed in the works by Florbela Espanca, a portuguese poet from the beginning of the 20th century. The economic regime of Capitalism current at that time has a great importance for the women s changing place in society, which also changed, little by little, social female roles. With a new position, a different kind of woman begins to question and re-evaluate various issues in a very unusual way for the time. In Portugal, it is in Literature, at first, that this process starts to be recorded, in an amateur way in tea rooms and then, slowly, in literary publications. Considering the importance of interdisciplinarity in the literary field, the present work draws on Psychoanalysis as the basis for the analysis of the letters and sonnets written by Florbela Espanca, linking these to the emotional condition named neurasthenia.