Banca de DEFESA: IASMIN MARIA DE OLIVEIRA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : IASMIN MARIA DE OLIVEIRA
DATE: 27/09/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

Death on the Front Line: Doctors' Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic

KEY WORDS:

Death. Pandemic. Medicine. Psychoanalysis.

PAGES: 113
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

Death occupied a prominent place during the pandemic of COVID-19, which began in 2020. The increasing numbers of losses caused by the disease summoned each person to approach the possibility of his own finitude. We started from the idea of death itself, from the Freudian discourse, as something impossible to represent, to question whether the pandemic context would be likely to cause effects on the  discourse about death, especially for health professionals who experience various losses in their daily lives. Thus, the research aimed to investigate death in the experience of frontline doctors during the pandemic from the Freudian psychoanalytic referential. To this end, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 medical professionals who worked in the front line of a public hospital in Alagoas. The analysis of the interview transcripts was based on Bardin's proposal, with psychoanalysis as the guiding theoretical body for the semantic content analysis. The interviewees pointed out that the pandemic showed a rupture in the ideal of medicine, and the limitations imposed by the absence of knowledge caused frustration. The imminence of death in the experience of the doctors appeared as a failure, as something to be denied, circumvented; and as a source of suffering. Death in medical training has its function, but it is insufficient, because the incessant attempt to get around finitude makes it even more evident that there is something that escapes the subject. The pandemic provoked effects for the doctors in this study by bringing death to the forefront and questioning the place that the encounter with finitude has in their lives.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Interno - 1518411 - CHARLES ELIAS LANG
Externa à Instituição - MARIA VIRGÍNIA FILOMENA CREMASCO - UFPR
Presidente - 1560350 - SUSANE VASCONCELOS ZANOTTI