"Me transformei com esse 'falatório' todinho": cotidiano institucional e processo de subjetivação em Stela do Patrocínio

Abstract

"I'm Stela do Patrocínio/Well sponsored/I'm sitting in a chair/ Preached in a desk black and black Creole/I'm a black woman and black Creole/What Ana told me" (PATROCÍNIO, 2009, p.58). This is a tiny piece of disconcerting work from Stela do Patrocínio, woman, poor, black and diagnosed insane who lived 30 years of her life, seeing the world through the real and imaginary walls of a psychiatric institution. Her poetry, or, as she defined "babblings" were collected in the book "Kingdom of the bugs and the animals is my name" and inspired the creation of plays, documentaries, music and other publications in academia. This paper proposes to discuss these different discourses produced about the author and his speech, trying to understand how it was possible that his speech echoed to the general public, who happened to have contact with their expressions and narratives of subjectivity, as well as understand how the experience of hospice admission and the relationships between psychiatric knowledge and institutional power can influence the construction of subjectivities immersed in gender relations, race / ethnicity and class. The babblings of Stela - along with other testimonies built in space-time admission asylum - also opens new possibilities for understanding the relationships in microcosm called hospice, medical knowledge and especially on the lives of these subjects called crazy.