Abstract
to analyze the psychosocial implications arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, reported in online service, from the perspective of Michel Foucault's concepts of biopower, biopolitics and governmentality. qualitative documental research, with analysis of medical records of users assisted in a therapeutic listening chat, between April and October 2020. the data were organized into two themes: Governmentality in the COVID-19 pandemic and the production of psychosocial implications of anxiety and fear and Discipline and subjection in the COVID-19 pandemic: subjectivities marked by sadness and anguish. The first demonstrates that the "art of governing" in Brazil produced instabilities and uncertainties that influenced the production of fear of contamination/death/and non-access to treatment and anxiety. In the second theme, we can see how disciplinary control and biopolitical regulation are combined. In Brazil, an extremely unequal country, subjectivity and subjectivities marked by anguish, feelings of discouragement and sadness have been produced. the exclusionary processes were deepened in the pandemic, with the exercise of a biopolitics that makes life precarious and produces psychological distress.
Highlights
Throughout history, different epidemics and pandemics have had a devastating effect on people’s physical and mental health
Governmentality in the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Production of Psychosocial Implications of Anxiety and Fear. This theme brings reports that point out how the “art of governing” in Brazil, producing instabilities and uncertainties that influenced the production of anxiety, fear of contamination/ death/and lack of access to treatment, as shown in the records that follow. She relates anxiety attacks to the current pandemic scenario, says that she is “haunted by the virus” and that any symptom, regardless of being a flu symptom, makes her suspect that it may be the manifestation of COVID-19
Humanity has already faced other pandemics, such as the bubonic plague and the Spanish flu, as described in O Nascimento da Clínica, in which, due to similar characteristics to the current COVID-19 pandemic, measures similar to the current ones have been taken, such as social distancing, quarantine or lockdown. These measures demonstrate the articulation between medical knowledge and public health policies, which created a biopolitical strategy for managing the lives of individuals who make up a population, which is in the order of medical, organizational and political knowledge of a State
Summary
Throughout history, different epidemics and pandemics have had a devastating effect on people’s physical and mental health. The challenges imposed by the current reality of the COVID-19 pandemic are complex, pointing to the effects of several orders. Humanity has faced diseases such as AIDS, Ebola, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and COVID-19. Contagious diseases continue to threaten human populations and historians continue to look to the past for insights to understand the present[1]. In La Peste, the author sought to organize the archetypal structure of an outbreak, describing the social drama triggered by an epidemic and explaining the latent social structures, being conducive to the analysis of the social context[2]. The fear of contracting the disease and of infecting, and emotional responses to the pandemic, such as inappropriate behaviors, emotional distress, defensive manifestations, anxiety, frustration, loneliness, anger, boredom, depression, stress and avoidance behaviors, are found in several studies[3–6]
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