The transformation of individualism and loneliness in times of pandemics

The characterisation of mass society in a without God, as mere mimetic, hypnotic and unstable phenomenon is clearly insufficient. For its rise, social, psychological relational changes had to take place, both among people between their environment. Many scholars recent times who have tried explain the undoubtedly linked it individualism, especially one characteristics that could be considered specifically modern: loneliness. study entitled “The Spiral Silence” well known, which Noelle-Neumann, taking up Tocqueville's classic thesis, highlights tremendous negative force – psychosocial agent individual behaviour face social forces. As Erich Fromm forcefully points out: “Feeling completely isolated lonely leads mental disintegration, just starvation death”. worldwide pandemic has forced rethinking concept isolation loneliness, theoretically displaced by virtual telematic forms communication. However, mimetic effects behaviours not disappeared with isolation, but been transmuted into new psychological, behavioural cognitive attitudes.