BETWEEN LOSS AND SILENCE: GRIEF IN A PSYCHOANALYTIC READING AND THE IMPACTS CAUSED BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

This work aims to analyze grief from a psychoanalytic perspective in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and its unfolding in the post-pandemic period. The study emphasizes the understanding of the subjective processes involved in the experience of loss, based on the formulations of Sigmund Freud (1905, 1917) and Melanie Klein (1935, 1946), in dialogue with contemporary authors. These conceptual bases allow us to understand grief as a psychic work essential to the reorganization of the subject in the face of loss. This is a qualitative research of a theoretical-bibliographical nature, based on articles, theses, dissertations and books available on platforms such as Google Scholar, Pepsic and Scielo, in addition to official sources. The relevance of this topic lies in the conditions imposed by the pandemic, such as social isolation, restrictions on funeral rites, and multiple losses in a short period, which weakened the symbolic and social processes of grieving. This study, therefore, proposes to reflect on the specificities of grief in contemporary times and its impacts on subjective constitution, highlighting psychoanalysis as a fundamental tool in this process.