El síndrome normativo: estudio de la eficacia de la normativa sobre caminos en el siglo xix antioqueño

Abstract

The theme of the paths is a constant in several historical moments of the antioqueño normative system of the 19th century, but, given the impossibility of presenting a study of all the elements where it is found, they chose three cases to observe there how the law became obsessed in the construction and maintenance of roads. These three cases are: i) the first republic (1811-1815), ii) the regulations of the provincial Chamber between 1848 and 1851, and iii) state legislation between 1856 and 1886. This phenomenon may well be elucidated if a allegory of primarily psychoanalytic origin: the obsessivecompulsive neurosis, which refers to the normative syndrome. Based on this clinical structure, the three cases could be thought of in a different way from what has generally been done, thus clearly envisaging situations where the normative syndrome and symbolic efficacy dominate the political-normative environment.