Marginalităţi fluide în România ceaușistă: cazul lui Gh. Brașoveanu între „boală mintală” și „dizidenţă” 1 Corina Doboș, Dumitru Lăcătușu Abstract. LIQUID MARGINALITIES IN CEAUŞESCU’S ROMANIA: THE CAS OF GH. BRAŞOVEANU BETWEEN “MENTAL ILNESS” AND “DISSIDENCE”. The present study aims at defining the concept of “dissident” from the standpoint of the intersection between the discourses of various normalization, surveillance and repression institutions (psychiatric institutions, state security, militia) specific to communist Romania, and also from the point of view of a lesser known but remarkable character who assumed and internalized these discourses in the mid-70s: George Braşoveanu. Starting from the case of Braşoveanu, diagnosed by psychiatrists of that era as suffering of “paranoid delusions” and admitted several times to mental hospitals in the country, the present study aims to explore the relationship between “mental illness” and “dissent” in the construction of marginalization/social exclusion in communist Romania: the passion of a man for religion is diagnosed as paranoid delusion, and later transformed into political dissidence, which led to Brașoveanu being tried and sentenced to three years in prison. The analysis of new archival sources identified at the Open Society Archives in Budapest or in the archives of the National Council for Studying the 1 Acknowledgment: Acest articol a fost realizat în cadrul proiectului de cercetare CNCS-UEFISCDI, proiect nr. PN-II-RU-TE-2012-3-44.