Caos, escatologia e morte: sintomas de um imaginário do pandêmico no cinema

Abstract

Coronavirus steals lives, changes habits and undermines social structures rendering much sharper the presence of death and time and the feeling of lack of control over facts that surround us. In this pandemic context, we realize our fragility and our predestination to an end. However, we deal with our fears of death, time, desease and instability using our imagination to create symbolic images and other imaginary contents that attenuate our anxiety. Those images inspire the human thinking, culture, art and media. In this paper, we observe 10 films to aim the pandemic imaginary symptoms related to outbreak movies. In order to do that, we turned to the Imaginary Studies, especially to Carl Gustav Jung, Gilbert Durand and Mircea Eliade.