In accordance with an agreement reached with Routledge, many of the previously available papers that were found in these Tribunes on the Coronavirus have been permanently removed. These essays are included in the book: Coronavirus, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy: Conversations on Pandemics, Politics and Society (Editors: Fernando Castrillón & Thomas Marchevsky), Routledge, 2021.
Discourse
April - July 2020
Psychoanalysts Facing Coronavirus
Julia Kristeva
In the Current State of War, it is Our Most Inner Selves that We Must Save
July 4, 2020
“The apocalypse also stimulates the genius of the human mind.”
Pietro Barbetta
Surviving the Virus: The Decline of the Individual and the Collective Subject
June 11, 2022
“I have been affected by the experience of facing death in consequence of covid-19 and the experience of recovery during the days that followed.”
Emma Jones
On “Covidiocy”
June 11, 2020
“What could it possibly mean to philosophize about the COVID-19 pandemic?”
Hannah Patricia Bennett
On Freaking Out: L’angoisse
May 6, 2020
“Supreme ignorant arrogant confidence there will be another time.”
Evan Malater
The Logical Time of Ending a Zoom Session as a Metaphor for the Terror of the Current Situation
April 22, 2020
"The nature of the disturbance was not what they imagined, not a crashing or a trauma but a slow displacement, a subtle and gradual disorientation."
Pietro Pascarelli
Before the Virus (October 2019)
April 19, 2020
“Hoping that a new beginning for the entire humanity can arise from the ashes of a cultural apocalypse now manifest to all, and in a critical phase.”
Javier Bolaños, Julieta Lucero and Florencia Bernthal Raz
A Pandemized World: the Human Being in the Face of its Own Exclusion as a Species
April 18, 2020
“[W]e are interested in specifying what is human in the human, especially when biology threatens its existence and when the human being is excluded as a species.”
Elisabeth Roudinesco
Beware of the Word “Macronovirus”
April 13, 2020
“It is therefore urgent to erect a sanitary barrier against the use of that term.”
Monique Lauret
What Can We Learn From the Chinese Covid-19 Crisis?
March 15, 2020
“What we lose in the West, and what the Chinese gain, can teach us in return, in a circular movement, something about the human condition in the world.”
