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Título: OBSESSIVE NEUROSIS AND NORMATIVE SYNDROME: A STUDY OF ANTIOQUIA’S ROADS REGULATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Autor: Andrés BOTERO, Universidad Industrial de Santander (Colombia)

Traductora: Ana Lorenza ÁLVAREZ

Resumen: Roads issue is a constant in several historical moments of Antioquia (Colombia)’s law in nineteenth century, but in view of the impossibility of presenting a study of all the elements, three cases were chosen to observe how law gets obsessed with the construction and maintenance of roads. These three cases are: i) the first republic (1811-1815), ii) the regulation issued by the provincial chamber between 1847 and 1851, and iii) state legislation between 1856 and 1886. This phenomenon may well be elucidated by applying a psychoanalytical allegory: «The obsessive-compulsive neurosis», which remits us to the normative syndrome. Based on a clinical structure, it would be possible to analyze these three cases in a different way like generally have been studied, getting to see clearly situations where normative syndrome and symbolic efficacy dominate the political and normative environment and scenario.

This text concludes that these norms, mostly ineffective, achieved such perfection
in their normative description and subsequent publication, and that they
became a complex juridical corpus, with a high political value, but far away from
reality.

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