Abstract:
In this article, we start from a concern with the Psychiatric Counter-Reform underway in Brazil to address the relationship between death and the Asylum. Operating with the theoretical-methodological approach of cartography, we take as main references texts written by people who were hospitalized in Psychiatric Hospitals between the 20th and 21st centuries, addressing issues of gender, race and class in an embodied way. The articulations between death and asylum culture are presented, from the writings of experience, in the devaluation of life, suicide, murder, abuse of electroshock and medication, abandonment, chronification and silencing of hospitalized bodies. The Asylum is shown here as another piece of Brazilian necropolitics, making the return of its strengthening call us to act, as the Anti-Asylum Movement teaches, once again towards a society without asylums.
Keywords:
Psychiatric Hospitals; Death; Literature; Mental Health; Anti-Asylum Movement