Abstract
In the current context of setbacks in the field of mental health, sexual rights and reproductive rights, Stella do Patrocínio’s poetic rants echo like records of an asylum past that insist on returning. The aims of this article is to problematize Stella do Patrocínio’s gabbles, contained in her posthumous book “Reino dos bichos e dos animais é o meu nome” (2001), with regard to sexualities. Based on an intersectional dialogue, such talks allowed us to see a sexuality associated with normative frameworks of gender, race and class and their effects on the processes of subjectivation. Furthermore, the articulation between asylum logic, biopolitics and eugenics with the knowledge and practices of the psi sciences that tend to the custody and normalization of sexualities, mainly on bodies like Stella’s, was evident. Therefore, Stella leaves us with important contributions and questions to the field of psychology.
Keywords
Stella do Patrocínio; Sexuality; Subjectivation; Biopolitics; Mental Health