Repugnance, disgust, anger, hate: pandemic of emotions

Abstract

It starts from emotions as psychic and social constructions, with meaning, that circulate and configure climates, groups and subjects. This text focuses on the review of disgust or social disgust, anger and hatred, or hateful speech, and it is reflected from different perspectives, through the consultation of bibliography and documentation. There is also an approach to a case, the influenza pandemic in Mexico, how the fear that was felt, evolved or was complemented by other feelings. Regarding findings, highlight the importance of the emotions studied, their validity as part of sociality, their circulation and combination, their role in the mind, the body, above all, in culture and social practices. In addition, how in a pandemic situation, several emerge, exacerbate, interweave or combine, with force and political consequences that shape and feed back into the social system.