Grief and melancholy:

incursions into psychoanalytic clinic in pandemic times

Abstract

This article is born from the desire to analyze the confrontations of the construction of a psychoanalytic clinic in pandemic times. It is intended to reflect on the tensions that have arisen between the attendances in the face-to-face and virtual modalities, but also on the new arrangements of suffering and its ways of naming it in the clinic. With the contribution of Freudian (FREUD, 1917[1915]/2010) and post-Freudian contributions, the fabric of the discussion moved in the direc- tion of developing a reflection on the relationship of the subjects in the face of object losses, either through mourning or through via melancholy, from two clinical cases: the bereaved child who ven- tured to migrate to online analysis and the melancholic adult who only managed to remain in the face-to-face setting.