Abstract

SCISLESKI, Andrea Cristina  and  MARASCHIN, Cleci. Madness and reason: Producing interactive classes. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2008, vol.60, n.2, pp. 40-47. ISSN 1809-5267.

The article proposes a discussion of some present configurations of madness, reviewing, in the first moment, the ideas of Ian Hacking, in order to think this existence mode as an operative effect of a matrix that constitutes social interactive classification and categories. In a second moment, the discussion incorporates Michel Foucault's problematizations, especially those presented in his classical book, The history of madness in the Classical Age, aiming to think the displacements in the matrix that makes the idea of madness. Foucault's work does not display a linearity of speeches about madness, but otherwise shows discontinuities that conform and legitimate existence's forms, that are classified as suitable or not, depending on the truth regime. The authors discuss critically the madness classification practices and referentials, searching for possibilities to promote less rigid and deterministic insertions. We emphasize that the classificatory practice, as the psychological and psychiatrical diagnoses, does not only interact with the ones classified, but also reverberate the limitations of the work of its own classifier agents.

Keywords : History of madness; Social matrix; Interactive classes.

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