Qué, cómo y porqué escriben los "locos criminales" en La Restauración. Reflexiones para abordar su estudio desde la historia
[EN] In this paper we reflect on how to approach the study of writings produced by criminals diagnosed as insane. We focus on four cases of 'criminally insane' that took place in the 1880s and who left abundant written testimonies of their criminal and pathological experience. We reflect o...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/414288 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/414288 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Criminal madmen Writings Fascination Honour Masculinity Social order Locos criminales Escritos Fascinación Honor Masculinidad Orden social Psychiatry Historiography |
| Sumario: | [EN] In this paper we reflect on how to approach the study of writings produced by criminals diagnosed as insane. We focus on four cases of 'criminally insane' that took place in the 1880s and who left abundant written testimonies of their criminal and pathological experience. We reflect on the importance of the writings of the 'madmen' as a historical source that allows us to study the voice of the patient, as well as the dangers of succumbing to their fascination. In the face of this, it is proposed to intervene in their texts and contextualise them historically as a means of knowledge. In this sense, we study the conditions of production of the writings, their intentionality, the recurrent themes that appear in them, especially the vindication of their crimes as acts of reinstatement of honour. lt also looks at the relationship between honour and the construction of a certain type of nineteenth-century masculinity as a way of opening up possibilities for the study of the texts. Finally, it reflects on the extent to which their criminal acts and the texts justifying them are disruptive of the social and moral order orare an extreme version of that order. |
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