The concept of “moral insanity,” adultery, and gender in Mujer rota (2020) by Irma del Águila
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Alejandro Enrico Susti Gonzales
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4489-8273
Abstract
This paper examines the portrayal of the protagonist, Sofía Carlota, Duchess of Alençon, in the novella Mujer rota (2020) by Irma del Águila (1966), in the context of the ideological and cultural context of the era. In this regard, attention is given to the concept of “moral insanity” and its application in the field of psychiatry in the nineteenth century to justify, from a medical standpoint, the confinement in sanatoriums and asylums of adulterous women whose behaviors were considered reprehensible from a medical and moral perspective, as well as the treatments to which they were subjected to “expel the libido” from their bodies, as is the case with the protagonist.
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