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ABSTRACT This brief communication seeks to clarify a phenomenon the author calls the “as-if state,” an experience which patients have described in various ways since the beginning of the pandemic.… Click to show full abstract
ABSTRACT This brief communication seeks to clarify a phenomenon the author calls the “as-if state,” an experience which patients have described in various ways since the beginning of the pandemic. While this state does not seem to fit into already-delineated phenomena such as defensive grandiosity or dissociative states, the author unexpectedly found a poignant and enlightening description of the as-if state in Camus’ The Plague.
Keywords:
plague;
solace unlikely;
unlikely places;
reading plague;
finding solace;
places reading
Journal Title: Psychoanalysis, Self and Context
Year Published: 2021
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Journal Title: Psychoanalysis, Self and Context
Year Published: 2021
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