Corpo e privação de liberdade: um estudo com presidiários na cidade de Manaus

Abstract

The present dissertation is a deep look at the prison system in the city of Manaus, a look that sought to ascertain the difficulties and resilience of these bodies deprived of liberty, seeking in this way to transpose in the course of these pages what was found during the unfolding of this renowned Master's degree course. According to Castro (2018) when interpreting Foucault, we can speak of literature in the modern sense of the term when this language, in which semiology and exegesis are superimposed, is no longer subordinated to both objects and the subject; when its function is no longer to name the things of the external world or to express the ideas or feelings of the internal world, but to speak of itself, to refer to itself. Modern literature exists only in the network of books already written. That said, I emphasize the importance of writing about these people who are often forgotten, or even interpreted as the scum of society. The work being described at the moment answered the following questions: How does the body behave when it understands the situation of prison? How does the subject see himself in the situation of a person deprived of liberty? What are the physical and psychological impacts perceived by bodies deprived of liberty? What kind of corporeality survives from the Penitentiary System? It was a study that transcended interdisciplinarity, linking sociology and psychology, with the objective of clarifying and highlighting the benefits caused by a different look at the aforementioned public. The methodology used is of a qualitative nature, with the application of discourse analysis as a methodological approach, which was based on Michel Foucault's theory, based on a descriptive, exploratory field perspective, through on-site observation of the phenomenon to be unveiled. The research technique used was the application of a semi-structured questionnaire with open and closed questions, the application of the Life History method as a methodological approach was presented continuously - emphasizing that this technique was developed by Znaniescki, in Poland, characterizing decades then as a method of collecting data on the subject in their social relationships and contexts as they are inserted. The bibliographic research was present in most of the development of the work and had a crucial importance in the construction process, collaborating for the discovery of theorists that allowed the reflection on the topics addressed.