Interdito: jogos de loucura, saber e poder nos processos de interdição de Guarapuava-PR (1940-1950)

Abstract

This work develops over perceptions, evocations and mobilizations of madness in civil processes of interdiction, which evaluate the ability of subjects to rule your own life and manage your property, and could be instituted by allegations that the supposed inept is suffering from madness. The process can only be required by people from family relationships or marriage to the so-called crazy, or the public ministry, and if the sentence is positive for the interdiction the inept will be subjected to a curator, responsible for his acts of civil life and even their property. This way, the civil interdiction is an action that unfolds from the intimate and private relationships to the public and formal, and aims the care and control others life and their property for arraignment of their abnormality. The civil interdiction is, this way, the inscription of relationship conflict between normality and abnormality, madness and not-madness, and capacity e incapability, perceived in everyday and placed at risk with the justice apparatus, in a knowledge dynamic, powers and true about the other and the madness. The civil interdiction processes are compounds for the steps of initial petition, expertise, testimonies and sentence, being selected to this research the interdiction processes of Guarapuava/PR judicial district related to the decades of 1940 (four processes) and 1950 (eight processes). The gender discussions run throughout all the text, occupying special space of the perception of power relationships of everyday of those involved by the processes, as evocated and assigned roles in the civil interdiction in the law concerns. The first chapter presents the processes, exploring exposed arguments and notions to validate the beginning of the civil interdiction processes by their requesting, noticing as reference to gender and the properties are exponents of the power relationship incorporated in these justifications. The second chapter explores the structure of the justice device on the Guarapuava judicial district at the time of the processes, and the civil code too, the civil processes code and interdiction law and the curatorship then prevailing, to proceed the scrutinizing of those captured by this device. The third chapter investigates identifications and relative subjectivations to madness and suffering made up for the witnesses of the processes and the interdicted, analyzing the growth of expertise power and the expert report confronting testimony pratices in the judicial processes dynamics