El escotoma cultural en tiempos de pandemia. El empobrecimiento de la función simbólica del hombre

This text addresses the cultural scotoma of these times of pandemic. To do this, we seek to apply the metaphor of the scotoma, used by Oliver Sacks in the clinical setting, expanding it to examine the cultural phenomenon of the pandemic. This scotoma is characterized by the impoverishment of the symbolic function of man. This impoverishment can be seen, for example, in the cultural phenomena of statistical panic and the loss of the most basic rituals, through which man used to face death. The examination of this scotoma is carried out in the light of the philosophical anthropology inspired by Cassirer and Blumenberg, insofar as this anthropology highlights the existence of man in his symbolic function.