Abstract

RODRIGUES, Rogério. Urban spaces, corporeal practices and mental health. Mental [online]. 2012, vol.10, n.18, pp. 109-128. ISSN 1679-4427.

The issue to be investigated rises from a reflection on the relations between urban spaces, the bodily practices and mental health. The theoretical proposition is the educational field, to analyze and interpret issues concerning the body techniques in interface with the urban spaces. The study starts with the hypothesis that this intersection of "city, body and mental health" has, for many times, its productions under-understood, because great part of the called educative theories doesn't instrumentalize a reflection that apprehends these interfaces on the 'educative real'. The method utilized to perform the investigation has a philosophical inspiration on the opportunity the author was involved with the question of the insertion of the subject in the urban spaces. The possible results of this reflection demonstrate that a healthy quality of mental life is the rupture of the education that disciplines the subject and subjects him to forms of control.

Keywords : Fundamentals of education; education of the body; urban spaces; mental health.

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