Title of the Book: The
Psychiatrist.
Author: Machado of Assis
Joaquim Maria Machado of Assis - 1839/1908 are
the best writer of the Brazilian literature, of your time and of the new times. Until today anybody your composition capacity was equaled and creativity exalts. For Antônio Dimas "the most impatient readers than they lament the discretion of the novel machadiano in social plan, they forget that even in the individual plan the writer fluminense was cautious". Realist, of very measured words, in "The
Psychiatrist " - narrator in 3rd person, omniscient, with " flash narrative back ". Introduces the character Simão Bacamarte - "The chronicles of the Villa of Itaguaí say that, in remote times, had lived a certain doctor there: Dr. Mr. Bacamarte " - it represents pictorial of the science in the Brazilian colony, a master that studied in the best Universities of Europe of the century XVIII - your desire was con hecer the borders between the reason and the madness. Married with D. Evarista, for the thought healthy aspect her to give him/her strong heirs, because the same was negligent in relationship to cares with the beauty and with the fineness. Doctor in Itaguai, did want to take your front studies of the Pathologies of the Human Brain. With that character, Machado makes a critics to the cientists of the time, without knowledge enough they deceived to all with your bazófias(cientistas of the mouth for had been).
When discovers that your wife cannot give him/her children, for sterile, Bacamarte decides to build the Green House, there it would cure all, fools ", " wild ", " several types of madness " and who knows your will of being father. In the time was habit to trace the lunatics in your own house, until your death. Your dream makes to know him/it the most important people of Villa(Padre, Chemist, Mayor. Asks for aid of the public power to build her (a hospital to intern the madmen). But it was not true, Bacamarte didn''t want to help the lunatics, he/she wanted to be the most important person of the Villa, a selfish hypocrite, that science that anything.
The proposal is not well it accepts for the City councils, until that Simão accepts in building the construction and the city hall with the tenancy, everything is solved. It is inaugurated with party. Therefore in your studies it begins to enlarge your vision of the madness, and it starts to intern all that your they see undressed human relationships. The people begin to change of conduct and they riot against him, because people that non lunatics are now interned. Of who the true madness is? It is" the "cientist''s" deformation that takes as absolute truth the presuppositions of the science and it makes, in your name, successive misunderstandings without giving for the absurdity of your pretensions ". It is the critic to the cientificismo, through a false cientist. That defends: they are "crazy those that present an abnormal behavior in agreement with the knowledge of most; enlarged the territory of the madness: The reason is the perfect balance of all the universities, out then, insanity, insanity and only insanity"; the lunatics now are the loyalists, the fairs, the honest and impartial; the only to be perfect of Itaguaí it was own Simão Bacamarte. Therefore, he should not only go to the Green " House.
I Ax with your critic the cientist''s posture, he/she makes a critic to the naturalism, because it reinforces in the psychiatrist the analysis of the human behavior: anything of appearances and it reaches the essence of this conduct strongly, showing the selfishness and the vanity of Simão.
The PEOPLE riot and imitating the great revolutionary movements creates your own
revolution " against Bastilha of the Reason ", that, in having disturbed and epic to uncoil, they end for taking the City councils. It was the Revolt of the Hominies, led by a barber. But the Green House stays, and there the eccentric types, as Mateus, Costa, and the own priest amarries (of Bacamarte) they were imprisoned. With this, feels a counter revolution, and a restoration after. As reveals in certain chapter, it gets to shelter at the Green House 80% of the local population. It is when discovers that your thought line was incorrect, that the diagnosis of the madness is not the without judgement of the universities, but your perfect harmony. Leaving of this beginning, it interns the statements virtuous, self-denying, modest and without addictions. It is interesting to observe as the institution of health it stays during all these governments, and after having freed the crazy suppositions, the esteem for the doctor still grows, unlike the hate and tyranny accusations that preceded the revolts. An attentive reader gets to abstract interesting and rich analyses of these events; and some more illustrious, notice structured satire, starting from a new reading of the French Revolution".
Bacamarte in the end is interning, after all the developed wrong actions, he discovers in your insanity and methodology informs, that all the mysteries of the madness now for him become illustrious.