PSICOLOGIA DA MORTE E FENOMENOLOGIA: NOTAS PARA A PESQUISA EMPÍRICA EM TEMPOS DE COVID-19

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic brought new presentations of death to the world, raising society reformulations in its mortuary rituals and bringing the grief of mourning and the persistent fear of finitude. In 2020, Brazil witnessed a turbulent fight against the Covid-19 pandemic that raised the death rate and bewildered the population. This article discusses an expansion of empirical research agendas with a phenomenological basis so that they can explain the scars left by the Covid-19 mortality in our necrosystem. Relevant theoretical proposals are presented in the field of psychology of death will be presented, a brief outline of phenomenological methodologies and their use in the field of the phenomenology of Brazilian death and, finally, considerations about the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on the given meaning to experiences of death and dying in Brazil in a pandemic time.

Keywords: Pandemic, Covid-19, death and dying, psychology of death, phenomenology, phenomenological research.