Abstract

POLETTO, Adriana Antunes de Almeida. When one dies and the other remains in life: reflections on death in times of the covid-19 pandemic. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2021, n.55, pp. 113-119. ISSN 0100-3437.

Death is a catalyzing event for human anguish. Freud states that death is unrepresentable in the psyche, as it has never been experienced by the subject. The most we do is experience the death of someone we know. But what happens when you are deprived of this experience, as now in the cases of covid-19, where, because of the high degree of contagion, the ceremonies were restricted? Or worse, when someone close to one another dies and the person, who was hospitalized with the same disease, finds himself excluded from farewell and mourning? These brief reflections deal with the theme of death in times of the covid-19 pandemic and will use a clinical case as a vignette. The proposal is to think about the body of the person who dies based on object relations theory.

Keywords : Covid-19; Mourning; Winnicott.

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