A cidadania do louco: um debate necessário para a compreensão da direção teórico-política da luta antimanicomial

Abstract

This essay has analyzed the citizenship conception defended by the Antimadhouse Struggle in Brazil, since its beginning in 1987, with the 2nd National Congress of the Mental Health Workers, until the late meetings of the movements that compose the Struggle, realized in 2007. It has been approached the Antimadhouse Struggle in a critical-dialectical perspective, covering a theoretical analytical way from the Bibliographical Research and the Documental Analysis, in which, firstly it has been approached the following themes: Modernity, while a social historical context of citizenship emergency and of the development of its distinct conceptions, among them the liberal, the Marxist and the post-modern ones; the Post-modernism; the new social movements and the limits of the identity politics; the social historical trajectory of the Antimadhouse Struggle; the theoretical-political conceptions that have influenced and influence the movement; and the several conceptions referring to citizenship and “mad people citizenship”. The Documental Analysis was done from the reports on the meetings of the movements that compose the Antimadhouse Struggle. From an analytical balance among the citizenship conceptions adopted by intellectuals and by the Antimadhouse Struggle – in relation to the liberal, post-modern and Marxist citizenship conceptions, it has been possible to identify the change on the citizenship conception presented by the Struggle along these 20 years of militancy, as well as its tergiversation towards the initial conception that led the Struggle.