Invulnerables e invertebrados

Each era produces certain discomforts that represent it. If the 19th century was the century of hysteria and obsessional neurosis, the pathologies that would define our time would be depression, addictions, anxiety, anorexia and bulimia, bipolar disorder and obesity. In this essay, the psychoanalyst Lola López Mondéjar analyzes the strategies that the individual uses to survive the growing uncertainty, the anthropological mutations that afflict us and the concerns that derive from them, based on what she defines as "fantasy of invulnerability": a particular narcissistic illusion that allows, as a defense, to take refuge in omnipotence and deny fragility. This psychic dynamic will result in apparently invulnerable but profoundly invertebrate beings, lacking any form of moral axis. Psychoanalytic theory, sociology, philosophy, cinema and literature, together with her own clinical experience, weave an analysis with which the author investigates some of the contemporary symptoms. Obesity, compulsive actions, love and heartbreak in the days of Tinder or the desperate search for identity today are examples of a hollow personality lacking in reflexivity, which prevents men and women thus formed from accessing a critical and creative subjectivity.