La narrazione mediale del mito ai tempi della pandemia: il medico eroe e la ristrutturazione simbolica dell'identitá collettiva

The pandemic that has involved the whole world and all States in an almost equal way, has given rise to a progressive diversification of the collective symbolic universes, in a varied toponomastic reconfiguration of actions and responses. Fluid forms of feeling and collective emotionality have come together and mingled in the mythical and imaginative figure of the hero who takes on himself all the weight of the world to be able to subsequently recreate a new order and a new reconfiguration, even social. In a short time the mythical figure of the hero-doctor has channeled all the expectations and concerns of an entire community, thus demonstrating that even in the contemporary age the structure of myth cannot cease to exist and that forms of devotional and affective anchorage are still present, modified only by historical events and narrative forms conveyed by the media. The narratives constructed and consumed as mythical stories through the transmedial circularity of the icons, have provided communities with real guides to the reassuring interpretation of the pandemic event.