In the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Some Observations from a Black Psychoanalyst Living in the Community

ABSTRACT

Black people, immigrants of color, poor people, and those with chronic illness are in danger of dying from the new coronavirus at an escalating pace over the next 2 years in this country. A psychoanalytic lens is used to make a notation on what is going on in this country in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the perils of being declared essential to the functioning of this society.

KEYWORDS:

• COVID-19
• pandemic
• essential worker
• race
• white supremacy

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Annie Lee Jones

Annie Lee Jones, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist/psychoanalyst. She is a training analyst and Fellow at IPTAR, Co-Chair of CERCCL at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and faculty at Adelphi University, and the Mitchell Center.