Abstract

SILVA, Jéssica Fernandes da  and  BLEICHER, Taís. Trauma in the Brazilian epidemic of covid-19: contributions from Lacan, Ferenczi and Kai Erikson. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2020, vol.54, n.3, pp. 95-106. ISSN 0486-641X.

ABSTRACT covid-19 was classified as a pandemic by the who. So far, there is no treatment or vaccine for the disease. At the same time that Brazil is the epicenter of the disease in Latin America, the President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, opposes social isolation measures, minimizing the importance and severity of the consequences of the disease in the country, in addition to defending the importance of the return of the economy at the expense of health issues. The pandemic can be considered a traumatic situation, which puts the subject in contact with a feeling of immobility and helplessness. In this sense, we seek to debate the situation of the Brazilian people in face of covid-19, especially the most vulnerable ones, relating their experiences to the notion of trauma, from the psychoanalysts Sándor Ferenczi and Jacques Lacan, in addition to the sociologist Kai Erikson.

Keywords : covid-19; trauma; social trauma; disavowal; psychoanalysis.

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