Citation

Soares SA, Souza LAF. Dilemas Rev. Estud. Conflito Controle Soc. 2019; 12(3): 605-626.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Publisher Editora Garamond)

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Abstract

From Michel Foucault's contributions (and his concepts of biopower and dispositive) and Giorgio Agamben (Homo Sacer) it is discussed how deaths were produced by the psychiatry in Brazil of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Through bibliographic review in works dealing with psychiatry in this historical period, the article analyzes, in interpretations of psychiatric discourses and practices, the implication of biological characteristics, aspects of the bare life of individuals and groups, which would turn them into killable subjects, close to the condition of Homo Sacer, and exposed to death within the psychiatric weft.

Language: pt

Keywords

biopoder; biopolítica; biopolitics; biopower; dispositive; dispositivo; Homo Sacer; psiquiatria; psychiatry