Ser e estar em um mundo pandêmico: marcas da Covid-19 na subjetividade

Abstract

We present a reflective essay, based on the socio-historical assumptions of conceptualization of personality and identity. In this perspective, the understanding of any phenomenon can only occur in its totality and materiality, in its historical and social context. In this way, we analyzed the marks of the Covid-19 pandemic and of social isolation, in the human constitution; and more specifically, in being in the pandemic world, immersed in contradictions and potentialities. We indicate contradictory aspects that permeate this experience and the ways in which they subjectively affect each one, in the collective and particular dimensions, in different contexts, among them: denial and fear; trust and faith; barbarism and care; need and empowerment. To conclude, we point out the ethical-political dimension as a way of giving new meaning to the pandemic world and of the ways of existing as personal and social beings in it, by getting involved in solidarity. In this way, we invite to reflect the possibilities of understanding human experience that respects human dignity in its different dimensions.