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That intimate stranger
Black mirror - The Handmaid’s Tale - Little fires everywhere | Jodie Foster - Bruce Miller - Lynn Shelton | 2011-2017-2020
Celeste Viñal

AMP, EOL | Hospital Interzonal General de Agudos "Gral. San Martín", La Plata, Argentina

Abstract

A pandemic brings multiple resonances in the subjects, society and even in the practice of psychoanalysis. The current scenario makes it possible to see, at this juncture, an Other that staggers in its countenances of knowing, of governing, of healing. We are still out of perspective, but we can sketch out some ideas, if we can untie a little from our love with truth, exactitude and magister dixit.
The present work covers various effects of the pandemic taking into account a neologism by Lacan, which Miller took up in his Course and which allows locating different external intimacies or intimate externalities. Extimacy is then presented in this essay as a conceptual contribution from which it is possible to trace various reflections on our present time.
From there and taking into account the contributions of art, it will be possible to reflect on the processes of segregation, one of the problems that our current society is going through with a notable presence.

Keywords: Pandemic ❘ psychoanalysis ❘ extimacy ❘ present time

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Ese íntimo desconocido


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