COVID-19 и две съпротиви срещу триумфалисткия разказ за господството над природата: „Боговете на Гърция“ на Фридрих Шилер и понятието за истина на Жак Лакан
Covid – 19 and Two Forms of Resistance to the Triumphalist Narrative of the Domination over Nature: „The Gods of Greece“ of Friedrich Schiller and the Concept of Truth of Jacques Lacan

Summary/Abstract: The text is dedicated to the development of the concept of truth by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, which is opposed to the concept of scientific truth, scientific fact and the instrumentalization of scientific knowledge as a whole. The context of the theoretical work is the pandemic of COVID-19 that is deemed by the text to have exposed many contradictions in our perception of science, and in particular – of medicine. Yet, it is necessary to first juxtapose both the concepts of psychoanalytic truth and truth in science with their reincarnations in the past in order to outline their significance for society. The text examines truth and knowledge in the Seminars of Lacan, but also in some authors from the Age of Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant and his concept of lie is a subject of this research, together with his disturbing moral imperative that we should never tell a lie under no circumstances. The research concentrates on Friedrich Schiller and his poem „The Gods of Greece“. This poem, as well as some seminars of Lacan, suggests a peculiar resistance to the Enlightenment idea of the dominance of reason over nature. The two resistances are opposed to the attempt to deal with the pandemic in the most technologically sophisticated manner. The text uses dialectical analysis of the said social phenomenon, working in the tradition of authors like Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič and the Italian Lacanian critical theorist Fabio Vighi.The text is dedicated to the development of the concept of truth by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, which is opposed to the concept of scientific truth, scientific fact and the instrumentalization of scientific knowledge as a whole. The context of the theoretical work is the pandemic of COVID-19 that is deemed by the text to have exposed many contradictions in our perception of science, and in particular – of medicine. Yet, it is necessary to first juxtapose both the concepts of psychoanalytic truth and truth in science with their reincarnations in the past in order to outline their significance for society. The text examines truth and knowledge in the Seminars of Lacan, but also in some authors from the Age of Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant and his concept of lie is a subject of this research, together with his disturbing moral imperative that we should never tell a lie under no circumstances. The research concentrates on Friedrich Schiller and his poem „The Gods of Greece“. This poem, as well as some seminars of Lacan, suggests a peculiar resistance to the Enlightenment idea of the dominance of reason over nature. The two resistances are opposed to the attempt to deal with the pandemic in the most technologically sophisticated manner. The text uses dialectical analysis of the said social phenomenon, working in the tradition of authors like Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič and the Italian Lacanian critical theorist Fabio Vighi.

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