De la distopía de la eugenesia a la utopía de la desnaturalización de la corponormatividad

This article on psychiatry in Brazil in the 19th century and the third millennium reveals the social construction of the language of deficit and the progressive sickening of a culture that spreads stigma as a form of social marginalization of people based on their differences. The "history of madness" and, more recently, the growth and dissemination of diagnostic categories offer an opportunity for sociological and anthropological analysis of the "great internment" phenomenon, contributing to the eugenic character that emerged in Brazilian psychiatry between 1917 and 1940. The medical language that normalizes bodies has its origins in analytical language and contains ordering codes, where words and things are susceptible to classification. Strictly speaking, this phenomenon opens the possibility of thinking that illness can be, at the same time, order and disorder, what is known today as the "archaeology of the medical gaze." The objective, therefore, is to denaturalize the corpo-normativity exercised by psychiatrists, a space accessible only through political thought. We are interested in maintaining proximity to "crip/crip" epistemology, through which we have access to the existential territories of historical subjects, diminished as objects of this type of "specialized" gaze.