Publication: Amores frustrados y deseos truncados, fábrica de endemoniadas en la era de la Ilustración: Teresa Olivares, la energúmena de Manzanares (1790-1798)
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2021-05-31
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Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares (IDEA)
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Tradicionalmente, al amor fue un sentimiento que había distorsionado las reglas sociales del juego. A caballo entre los siglos XVIII y XIX, la Ilustración dejó paso al prerromanticismo, que exaltaba la felicidad y la libre voluntad de los individuos, de paso que abría una ventana de libertad a las mujeres para elegir la pareja de sus vidas. En este contexto cambiante, se insertan algunos casos de supuesta posesión infernal que, en realidad, enmascaran crisis nerviosas y depresiones. Unos trastornos mentales generados, consciente o inconscientemente, por su rebeldía frente al sistema patriarcal imperante, bien como respuesta frente a acosos sexuales o bien con el fin de soslayar la presión familiar para casarse contra el deseo de las contrayentes.
Traditionally, love has been a feeling that had distorted social rules and behavior. In the years between the 18th and 19th Centuries, the Enlightenment gave way to pre-Romanticism, a cultural movement that exalted happiness and free will of individuals, incidentally opening a window of freedom for women to choose their better half. In this changing context, some cases of alleged women's demonic possession masked in reality nervous breakdowns and love depressions. These mental disorders were generated, consciously or unconsciously, by the rebellion of women against the prevailing patriarchal system, either in response to sexual harassment or in order to avoid family pressures to marry against their own desires.
Traditionally, love has been a feeling that had distorted social rules and behavior. In the years between the 18th and 19th Centuries, the Enlightenment gave way to pre-Romanticism, a cultural movement that exalted happiness and free will of individuals, incidentally opening a window of freedom for women to choose their better half. In this changing context, some cases of alleged women's demonic possession masked in reality nervous breakdowns and love depressions. These mental disorders were generated, consciously or unconsciously, by the rebellion of women against the prevailing patriarchal system, either in response to sexual harassment or in order to avoid family pressures to marry against their own desires.
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Section: Voces y espacios femeninos en el mundo hispánico (siglos XVI-XVIII), coord. Cristina Tabernero.
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Ilustración, Matrimonio, Endemoniada, Exorcismo, Inquisición, Enlightenment, Marriage, Demonic possession, Exorcism, Inquisition
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Gómez Vozmediano, M. F. (2021). Amores frustrados y deseos truncados, fábrica de endemoniadas en la era de la ilustración: Teresa Olivares, la energúmena de Manzanares (1790-1798). Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro, 9(1), 841-865.