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Originally published in the European Journal of Psychoanalysis (EJP), the essays in this volume are a set of responses to the coronavirus crisis by distinguished philosophers and psychoanalysts from around the globe.
The coronavirus irrupted making swift and deep cuts in the fabric of our existence: the risks of contagion and indefinite periods of isolation have radically altered the functioning of society. Pandemics do not wait for comprehension in order to proliferate. Confusion, sickness, and death punctuate the failure of governments worldwide to respond. This collection of writings examines the effects of the pandemic and the conditions that make possible such a global crisis. The writers provoke us to consider how capitalism, governmental power, and biopolitics mold the contours of life and death. The contributors in this collection ignite urgent political dialogue, address emergent transformations in the social field and offer perspectives on shifts in subjectivity and psychoanalytic practice. Beyond providing reflections on the impact of the coronavirus, the authors point to determinants of how the crisis will unfold and what may be on the horizon.
This book will be invaluable to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, philosophers, and to all those interested in the implications of the virus for psychoanalytic practice and theory, and the social, cultural and political spheres of our world.
List of contents
Part I - Philosophers Speak: 1. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison [an excerpt]
Michele Foucault 2. A Viral Exception
Jean-Luc Nancy 3. Cured to the Bitter End
Roberto Esposito 4. Riposte to Roberto Esposito
Jean-Luc Nancy 5. The Community of the Forsaken: A Response to Agamben and Nancy
Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan 6. The Virtues of the Virus
Rocco Ronchi 7.The Threat of Contagion
Massimo De Carolis 8. What Carries Us On
Shaj Mohan 9. The Obscure Experience
Shaj Mohan 10. Agamben, the Virus, and the Biopolitical: A Riposte
Zsuzsa Baross 11. A Much Too Human Virus
Jean-Luc Nancy 12. The Return of Antigone: Burial Rites in Pandemic Times 13.
Néstor Braunstein Part II - Philosophers Act: 13. One Health and One Home: On the Biopolitics of Covid-19
Miguel Vatter 14. The Italian Laboratory - Rethinking Debt in Viral Times
Elettra Stimilli 15. Vitam Instituere
Roberto Esposito 16. Communovirus
Jean-Luc Nancy 17. The Satanization of Man. The Pandemic and the Wound of Narcissism
Sergio Benvenuto 18. A Viral Revaluation of All Values?
Dany Nobus 19. Humanity is Rediscovering Existential Solitude, the Meaning of Limits, and Mortality
Julia Kristeva 20. A Flight Indestinate
Divya Dwivedi Part III - Psychoanalysts Speak: 21. Psychoanalysis Too, Will Never Be the Same
Néstor Braunstein 22. Politics of the Letter (27) Screened Speech is the Foreclosure the Littoral of the Letter
René Lew 23. Hestiation. Our Life After Coronavirus
Sergio Benvenuto 24. The Virus and the Unconscious. Diary From the Quarantine
Sergio Benvenuto 25. Talking Cure by Phone During the Lockdown
Monique Lauret 26. The Truth About Coronavirus
Duane Rousselle
About the author
Fernando Castrillón, Psy.D., Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis, is a personal and supervising psychoanalyst, professor in the Community Mental Health Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), and a member of the Istituto Elvio Fachinelli ISAP (Institute of Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis) based in Rome, Italy. He is the author of a book and numerous articles in both Spanish and English.
Thomas Marchevsky, Ph.D., is an editor of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis, has a psychoanalytic practice in San Francisco, California. He is Clinical Director of The Clinic Without Walls and an adjunct faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).
Summary
Originally published in the European Journal of Psychoanalysis (EJP), the essays in this volume are a set of responses to the Coronavirus crisis by distinguished philosophers and psychoanalysts from around the globe.
