Santos, Douglas Manoel Antonio de Abreu Pestana dos2023-06-282023SANTOS, D. M. A. DE A. P. DOS. Considerações sobre o real, simbólico e o imaginário social acerca da loucura na sociedade v. 14 n. 2 (2023) DISPONIVEL EM: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/rvh/article/view/516671982-4238https://deposita.ibict.br/handle/deposita/382The aim of this contribution is a deep reflection on the naturalization of madness and the place it occupies in the social imaginary. From analytical speeches and a literature review that retraces the history of madness, it seeks to understand the devices that lead to the pathologization of difference and, above all, from what place and withwhat purpose the knowledge about madness is constructed. The research points out that madness obtained its qualification through a social construction that defends values imposed by an authoritarian dominant class. Still reduced to a biological dimension,madness, in this society that execrates the expression of difference and creativity, continues to be an alibi for control and social adequacy, for the promotion of violence against bodies, and for the medicalization of life.Keywords:Madness, naturalization, normativity; Social imaginaryapplication/pdfopenAccessdisciplinaerotismosFoucaultSaúdetransgressãoSOCIALArtigo