Description
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.
Table 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
