Abstract

LEVY, Elizabeth Samuel. A parallel life in the ICU: the psychoanalytic listening of the post Covid 19 patient. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2021, n.56, pp. 69-76. ISSN 0100-3437.

We are here surviving with many scratches, reverberating the horror still in the memory of the skin. The covid-19 pandemic has summoned us and still summons us to each wave of variants of the coronavirus, to the variations of feelings that throw us into helplessness, anguish and fear. We all seem to be identified with this sequence of anguished expectations in the face of the traumatic reality we are going through. Still with few answers and many questions, we continue and count on the contributions of psychoanalysis in its clinical listening to reconstruct the particular history of each one in the face of the wreckage left so far by the pandemic and its psychic effects. And how to survive 3 months of hospitalization, with 45 days in the ICU and almost 30 days intubated? We will bring authorized clinical fragments of a post-covid patient who reported his experience that he called "parallel life" during the time he was intubated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for patients with Covid 19, the so-called "covidário". Were the reports delusions, fantasies, daydreams? In and through the transference, it was possible to leave the state of anguish and helplessness and assign meaning to what was experienced and relived in the ICU

Keywords : Pandemic; Anguish; Helplessness; Fear; Intensive Care Unit.

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