Illness of medical professionals due to COVID-19: a psychoanalytic study on body and finitude
Body; Finitude; Pandemic; COVID-19; Psychoanalysis.
In 2020, there was a crisis caused by the global pandemic of COVID-19. The arrival of the new coronavirus brought about a transformation in the ways of living and in the ways of relating. Reports, news and testimonies about illness and death are highlighted in the media, especially about medical professionals. Therefore, this research conducts an investigation about the body and finitude in the context of the pandemic from the theoretical framework of Freudian psychoanalysis. The objective is to analyze the relationship between body and finitude in medical professionals in the face of illness caused by COVID-19. More specifically, it seeks to identify the conception of the body related to death in Freud's work; discuss the illness of the body through the concept of drive; and, to investigate the issue of death associated with the illness of medical professionals by COVID-19. Therefore, the research will take place in three stages: 1) literature review; 2) questionnaire with information about the participants and 3) clinical interview. The analysis of the material will be carried out from the psychoanalytic analysis of Discourses.