Ensaio sobre encontros e desencontros entre arte, loucura e clínica.

Abstract

Although we currently view the fields of art, madness, and clinical practice with a strange and immediate familiarity, certain questions arise from this triad, demanding deeper exploration. In this work, I seek to outline the different landscapes these fields have shaped throughout history, as well as their developments. From the tragic experience of madness as described by Foucault, through isolation and the psychiatric pathologization of creative processes undertaken by the confined, this journey leads us to moments of rupture, where questions raised by the modernist movement and psychiatric reform enable us to consider the confluence of art and madness as allies in an expanded clinical practice. Thus, while traditional psychiatry may strain against a clinical approach that seeks to reclaim the mad individual as a citizen through art, a boundary of experimentation opens up. Here, we encounter inventions such as those of Lygia Clark, who, inhabiting a border region, makes us recognize the complexity that the continuous interrelation between art, madness, and clinical practice imposes on us.