Victimes du COVID-19 : être ou ne pas être ?

As part of this work, we propose to understand the global epidemic of COVID-19 coronavirus, as a sociobiological phenomenon. To carry out our reflection, we will base ourselves on a psychological listening experience (in a psychoanalytic orientation) conducted during the Nice attacks in 2016, and continued today, during the current pandemic context. More specifically, we will look at the signifier “victim”, including all that it involves as questions about the subject. Our proposal will be to consider the victim status as a crossing. During this one, it is important that the suffering of the subjects is listened to, recognised, judged and compensated. In order for this to happen, everyone can find his own way of giving an answer to the reality of the virus, as it has imposed itself on us; but we will also see that one of the possible conclusions of this crossing consists in going through various forms of sublimation.