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2024-03-29T14:03:02ZO infanticídio no código penal de 1940: crítica à aplicação do critério fisiopsíquico
http://hdl.handle.net/11422/9075
Title: O infanticídio no código penal de 1940: crítica à aplicação do critério fisiopsíquico
Author(s)/Inventor(s): Mendlowicz, Mauro Vitor
Advisor: Moraes, Talvane Marins de
Abstract: lnfanticide is described in the Brazilian Penal Code of 1940 as follows: "The killing by the mother of her newborn child during or soon after the birth under the influence of puerperal state". "Penalty: two to six years of prison". This law grants the mother who kills her newborn child a lighter punishment than that given to homicides in general. For this to occur, however, it is necessary that the crime be committed in a special state of mind, resulting from the "influence of puerperal state". By principle, modern Psychiatry refuses a pathogenetic role to birth and puerperium wherefore we decided to study 55 cases in which a woman was prosecuted for infanticide in the city of Rio de Janeiro, between the first of January of 1900 and December 31 of 1993, in order to delineate the role that psychiatric disturbances might have played in the genesis of such cases. We found that, although 36% of the infanticide stated having committed the crime under the influence of some psychopathological disturbance, generally amnesia, the analysis of the cases revealed that in all of them this disturbance was a feigned one. On the other hand, we found that infanticides were mainly young, single, poorly educated women, generally working in non-qualified jobs, for whom an illegitimate child would represent for various reasons an additional burden. In conclusion we affirm that infanticide is a motivated act, not the consequence of any psychiatric disorder and that the privileged legal treatment enjoyed by these women is based on moral factors and not on scientific evidence.
Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Type: Tese1994-01-01T00:00:00ZSujeito e psicose
http://hdl.handle.net/11422/4410
Title: Sujeito e psicose
Author(s)/Inventor(s): Pequeno, Angela de Andrade
Advisor: Saggese, Edson Guimarães
Abstract: This thesis links psychoanalytical theory and clinical practice, which I understand as being the only way to develop knowledge in psychoanalysis. In this thesis I investigate the psychoanalytical concept of "subject", taking psychosis as a fruitful basis. The onset of a psychosis causes the breakdown of the structure by means of which the subject supported himself previously. Starting from this breakdown, however, a process of restoration is set in motion. In my work I seek to analyse the constitution, the disruption, and the reconstruction of the subject in psychosis. At the beginning, I report two analyses of psychotics, both attended at the Institute of Psychiatry ofthe Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. The first of these subjects stayed in hospital for fifteen months, during which I could witness a process of dissolution. The second is an outpatient and seems to be on the way to stabilisation. On the basis of these two cases, I develop a theoretical approach in which I use: Freud's first topographical theory; the first period of Lacan's teaching, with an emphasis on the elementary cell of the Graph of the Wish and on the Schemes L, R, and I; and Lacan's theory of knots. Within this argument, the clinical cases are reintroduced and involved to the theory. Clinical practice always carries with it the dimension of the real, which is the core of the subject. This is the link I discuss in my thesis.
Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Type: Tese2000-09-01T00:00:00Z