Perception disorders in pandemic times: the bias of repression

Abstract

This article aims to investigate, from the path taken by the concept of repression in Freud's texts from 1891 to 1915, possible ways of associating how the “strain”, between the notions of reality and perception influences how an individual receives a perceptive content from an external stimulus (visual or acoustic), and whether this can suffer any "disruption" in times of pandemic. By "disturbance" we mean both cases in which external stimulus (even if received by the organs of the sense) are unable to associate themselves with a chain of representations, as the cases in which the external stimuli are distorted, to make it possible for the individual to belong to a network of representations.