Tô maluco, mas tô em obra: a trajetória do artista moderno e as representações da loucura

Abstract

This essay compares two historical contexts in which the alliance between art, psychology and psychiatry was set in motion as a resource in the transformation of madness’ and the artistic phenomenon’s representations. In such a way, I depart from the reflections on the transformations in the values’ systems that conducted the artistic phenomenon in Brazil, in middle of 20th century, consecrating the individual singularity as a locus of the modern artistic production. The alliance between art, psychology and psychiatry was fundamental in this process, in which social actors’ strategies, actions and behaviors had constructed a system of representations that transformed the imaginary role and the creator’s symbolic place. From this process, I compared the alliance between art, psychology and psychiatry in that context and the use of artistic manifestations in the current “Psychiatric Reformation”, showing that both representations, that of the insane and the artist, are constituted of antagonistic values.