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- Title
Febrônio Índio do Brasil: crime, loucura, raça e sexualidade nos anos 1920.
- Authors
Sydenstricker Alvares, Pedro Luís; Leal Ferreira, Arthur Arruda
- Abstract
This paper explores different portraits of Febrônio Indio do Brasil, the first defendant in Brazil to be evaluated as judicially unimputable, since he was considered to have a constitutional psychopathy. To this end, the different historiographies of psychiatric devices will be discussed, as well as the possibility of a history-construction, in the gathering of heterogeneous elements in the composition of a character. In this way, the article explores different documents written about Febrônio; such as his psychiatric report, his criminal process, his gospel The Revelations of the Prince of Fire, and the writing of the Swiss poet Blaise Cendrars about Febrônio. The purpose of this documentary analysis is to understand how crime, madness, race, and sexuality are articulated in the construction of versions about Febrônio as a character that vary from the monstrous madman to the prophet. At the end of the text, we outline the notion of criminal dramaturgy.
- Publication
Memorandum: Memória e História em Psicologia, 2022, Issue 39, p1
- ISSN
1676-1669
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.35699/1676-1669.2022.39076