THE CROSS, STETHOSCOPE AND PEST

A DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PROJECTION THAT PARAMENTED CHRIST AS A PHYSICIAN

Abstract

We use some legacy concepts of Nietzsche (1993; 2013; 2016, 2017a, 2017b) and successors such as Foucault (1996; 2012; 2016) and Deleuze (2013; 2017) in an attempt to carry out a brief analysis of a projection held at the statue of Christ the Redeemer potential as a reaction to the official Brazilian discourse in the context of COVID-19. We seek to apprehend some effects of meaning as well as the constitutive lines of force of: a) Jesus Christ dressed as a doctor; b) the inscription of the lexeme “thank you” and some of its foreign lexical equivalents. The singularity of the meaning proposed in the multiplicity of the phenomenon points to two non-exclusive ways of protecting the State: in one, human resources are exalted with the subterfuge of protection to life; in another, material and patrimonial resources.