A representação da loucura em Hospício é Deus, de Maura Lopes Cançado

Abstract

This work analyzes the representation of madness in ―Hospício é Deus‖, by Maura Lopes Cançado. The study emphasizes the relationships between a main character and context which it is inserted into the work, focusing on the highlighted factors presents into the enunciative discourse, such as the madness. The research is bibliographical, based on the texts of Michel Foucault, mainly the book History of Madness, where the author discusses the first contacts between society and madness, until the contemporaneity. The study joins the productions of João Freyze Pereira, Bergson, Chevalier & Gheerbrant, Carlos Godo, Joan Scott, Ecléa Bosi as others for the development of the research. The actions which are against the rulers are, in most, represented as madness, and it is what have seen observed into the behavior of Maura. Then, the yell of freedom by which she is submissive, her yearnings, her frustrations, her unresolved connection with a childhood, her transgression, her argument and her does not acceptance of reality, are elements which contribute to the madness have to be injected into the character of this work. Madness and the madwoman are placed on the society border, because it is a knowledge that escapes the control of power because it is immersed in a particular world, the madwoman shows some truths which are, often, the individual with all his normality wants to hide, therefore, the madness is considered dangerous by society, causing it to be repressed and silenced.