ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a two three-way dialogues that took place, the first one, at the very beginning of the pandemic, which was particularly violent in Italy in spring 2020, and the second one a year later during the second wave in spring 2021. By freely discussing, the authors questioned themselves on what was happening at a psychosocial level, in Italy in particular, and in the Western world in general, focusing not only on the most immediate level of the ongoing traumatic experience. They referred, on the one hand, to illness and death and, on the other hand, to the claustrophobic experiences of the lockdown, but also on the pre-existing social critical issues that the Covid-19 pandemic contributed to make more evident, such as individualism, anomie according to Durkheim, the pervasive spread of digital tools and social-media, the emotional-cognitive dissociation of a human being on the one hand hyper-technological and on the other prey to primitive and pervasive emotional states.
