Writing in a Time of Epidemic
Writing in a Time of Epidemic

Summary/Abstract: One can talk about trauma, and perhaps also about disassociation. About the unbearable and the unresolved. Fear of collapse (whether conceivable or not). The ability to contain. Defenses. Their breakdown. Survival versus extinction (what survives? what becomes extinct?). Subversion and reconstruction. Regression. The attempt to convert psychosis into neurosis. Either way, reality evades the stubborn attempt to understand it. What good would words do. But at certain moments the need to talk is felt, and of all things, in terms of standing at the threshold of a black hole.

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