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Literatura mexicana
On-line version ISSN 2448-8216Print version ISSN 0188-2546
Abstract
FLORES, Enrique. Lascasian psychopathia: A “paranoid delusion”. Lit. mex [online]. 2021, vol.32, n.1, pp.39-68. Epub May 07, 2021. ISSN 2448-8216. https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.litmex.2021.1.26852.
Within the framework of a broader investigation —“Conquest and cruelty”— which addresses some chronicles of the Conquest as propitious materials to document, from an “aesthetic” point of view, the living matter of genocide, this essay constructs a vision of what Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, in his Breve relación de la destrucción de las Indias, called “exquisite ways of cruelty.” And all that, starting with the detailed analysis of an article by Ramón Menéndez Pidal —“An abnormal norm of Father Las Casas”—, its psychiatric ramifications and some unexpectedly surrealist connections, from Jacques Lacan and Minotaure magazine to the “critical paranoia” of Salvador Dalí.
Keywords : Conquest; Cruelty; Las Casas; Menéndez Pidal; Psyquiatry; Surrealism.