Abstract
Starting from a brief contextualization of the precariousness of health services at the moment when Covid-19 hits the country, the article situates the conditions of helplessness in which the subject is to face the pandemic. Then it recognizes the conditions for us to be facing a traumatic situation that refers to the resources of psychoanalysis to guide a way of dealing with the situation. It then resorts to the psychoanalytic concept of mourning and death, identifying them as collective experiences, which should support the social pact and provide conditions for life in society, with their individual expressions. It examines the attitudes towards death, over the last century, identifying indifference as one of the attitudes that attacks this pact. It goes on to establish the importance of mourning as reverence for death when it is not denied by society or when there is no attitude of indifference towards it. It concludes by returning to the subject’s work once he or she faces the trauma arising from the encounter with the real of death. It is now for this subject to take responsibility for the necessary confrontations that will have occurred and have been imposed on him with the pandemic.
Keywords:
Covid-19; Death; Mourning; Psychoanalysis