ABSTRACT
The nightmare is a return to the enigma of the drive; it is a return to the impossibility of making sense of it all. It also opens up the possibility of fabricating new solutions through science – which acts directly within the real – and through an everyday attitude of hyper-pragmatism. The urgency has now reached a fever pitch while the demand that confronts us exposes itself more and more in its truth. Amidst all of this, psychoanalysis becomes a refuge by resisting the tendency to request that the subject isolate itself further into the real. The real threat today is not coronavirus, necessarily, but real itself, which gives way to the coronavirus and to all other terrifying and lawless pandemics such as addictions, loneliness, depression, panic attacks and so on. Capitalism sells itself not by its explicit convictions nor by its inherent liberties but rather by its ‘cash-value’ approach to truth (to borrow an expression from the American pragmatists).
