Imperfect institutions: pandemic, sexuality and society

PSYCHOANALYSIS DURING THE PANDEMIC

  • Igor Romanov
Keywords: pandemic, sexuality, repression, containing, psychoanalytic sociology

Abstract

The paper discusses some issues which were developed in M. Rustin’s paper "The Coronavirus Pandemic and its Meanings". It investigates as the pandemic COVID-19 shows an uneven development of global social system and particular societies. An importance of psychoanalysis in exploration of social transformation consists in possibility to consider the defensive and containing functions of social systems, and the anxieties appeared after their collapse. Superego is considered as a psychic equivalent of social control function and its change in modern society is investigated on example of contemporary transformations of sexual ethics and behavior. The analysis of sociologic works on the topic shows some underestimation of late Freud’s theory of superego in light of his theory of death drive.

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Author Biography

Igor Romanov

Romanov Igor Yur'evich – a training analyst of Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Society (IPA study- group), psychologist, Ph.D., Associate Professor of J.B. Shadt department of theoretical and practical philosophy of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University philosophical faculty. An editor of “Era of countertransference”, an editor of translation of M. Klein, R. Hinshelwood’s, J. Steiner’s and other books, a Head of Ukrainian Kleinian seminars program, supported by Melanie Klein Trust.

Published
2021-05-13
How to Cite
RomanovI. (2021). Imperfect institutions: pandemic, sexuality and society. Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis, 2(1), 99-111. Retrieved from https://psychoanalysis-journal.hse.ru/article/view/12414
Issue
Vol 2 No 1 (2021): Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis
Section
CLINICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS