Биополитики на пандемията и тялото, материя на тревогата
Biopolitics of Pandemic and Body, Material of Anxiety

Summary/Abstract: The text of Eric Laurent explores the way, in which the biopolitics searching a model, based on a calculated certainty, have been influenced by the spread of COVID-19 all over the world. Is it possible in the scientific field a unity to be achieved from the variety of ways of calculation and standardization of the answers? The favourite maxim of the epidemiologists “All models are wrong, but some are useful” helps us to understand why the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan points out the necessity of precaution in using models in science and their remoteness in relation to the real. Eric Laurent invites us to make a different reading of Aristotelian syllogism “All men are mortal”, referring to the teaching of Lacan, in which the central place is taken by the topological montage between Symbolic, Imaginary and Real. Is there universal for the man? Does the function all exist in the pandemic? Eric Laurent deploys the position of Lacan, who identifying the discourse as epidemic, makes a new reading of the mortification of signifier, which is not in opposition to jouissance. The article regards the question of the passage from universal for all to the subject, a singular subject, faced with outside-meaning of death. What is the function of proper name and what relation it has to raising the question of the man? How in the teaching of Jacques Lacan proper name, material of anxiety, body are articulated?

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