Catastrophy

Abstract

Complexity is the term that best defines this historical moment, we are almost out of the pandemic, but not yet free from fear that what we have put out of the door may return through the window due to the limited development of psychological defense mechanisms, namely denial and acting­out. We are finding ourselves back in a full anthropocentric crisis. Humanism which had triumphantly placed at the center of its universe man, is now finding out that all his certainties and cyber achievements can be jeopardized by a virus, a basic organism, considered unable to think. Anthropology has acknowledged the fragility of the system, human beings have recognized their own powerlessness and the existential anguish which goes with it, a psychic prison from which the human being needs to free himself by working through a mourning process.