The Class Character of the Coronavirus Panic

In the panic attack, the traumatic event is created by the imagination and this construction (a micro-delusion), built in loneliness and anxiety, has the same power as the real trauma.

In the panic attack, the traumatic event is created by the imagination and this construction (a micro-delusion), built in loneliness and anxiety, has the same power as the real trauma.

Franco De Masi, “The psychodynamic of panic attacks,” International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2004

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