That intimate stranger

A pandemic brings multiple resonances in the subjects, society and even in the practice of psychoanalysis. The current scenario makes it possible tosee, 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 sket...

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Main Author: Viñal, Celeste
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2020
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/eticaycine/article/view/30880
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Summary:A pandemic brings multiple resonances in the subjects, society and even in the practice of psychoanalysis. The current scenario makes it possible tosee, 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 sketchout 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 whichallows locating different external intimacies or intimate externalities. Extimacy is then presented in this essay as a conceptual contribution fromwhich 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 thatour current society is going through with a notable presence