The writing of history and mourning in collective disasters

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Karla Patrícia Holanda
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Rabêlo, Fabiano Chagas
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Interdisciplinares em Psicologia
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/eip/article/view/41036
• topic: psychoanalysis; history; mourning; psicoanálisis; historia; luto; psicanálise; história; luto

This article explores, based on the issues raised by the Covid-19 pandemic, the tension and the plurality of meanings that the concept of denial assumes in the scope of psychoanalysis. An articulation between the contributions of Freud and Ferenczi is sought to establish a description of the consequences of a negationist policy that perpetuates and exacerbates the vulnerabilities and suffering of the most disadvantaged population, especially in situations of collective catastrophes, such as the current one. This creates obstacles to the work of symbolizing and elaborating mourning, considerably limiting the possibilities of building a solidary, broad, effective and lasting political response. Then, the relationship between the writing of history and the collective dimension of mourning is questioned. It is proposed, from Freud and Ginzburg, the valorization of melancholy and shame as a strategy of discursive resistance to a negationist policy based on denial.