El impacto del confinamiento en la subjetividad de la época

Abstract

Our work aims to inquire about the effects of the confinement generated by the Covid-19 pandemic on contemporary subjectivity and to question the challenges that are imposed today on the psychoanalytic clinic. We start from the affirmation of Lacan (1953/1979):"Better than that those who cannot unite to their horizon the subjectivity of their time should resign." (p. 138). We intend to investigate how this maxim could be sustained, taking as a reference a horizon shaped by the consideration of the subjecti vity of our time. The pandemic has confined us: that implies a process of rupture in a certain significant order of the life of the subjects. However, thanks to the hyper-virtuality in which we are immersed, partly as a consequence of the confinement, one can fall into the illusion that nothing has stopped. We have become accustomed to virtual meetings of all kinds and even online psychoanalysis sessions. The truth is that nothing will be the same. We ask ourselves: Can psychoanalysis, in times of pandemic and confinement, not shrink from the anguish caused by the symptomatic phenomena of this time and provide an adequate clinic? Can it rise to the challenges that this time poses for us?