The Covid19 pandemic has impacted on but not overwhelmed the work of the psychoanalyst and his patients. This is also because the ethics of care is anchored in the specifics of responsibility, which underpins the path of subjectivation. On the micro-level of the session, the oppositional conjunctions represent the crux of the movement between symmetry and asymmetry, alluding to the acceptance and transformation of trauma. The eclipse of bodies, crystalised by the televisual dimension of Skype, is an opportunity to reflect on the disharmonies between mind and body even in the normal setting, highlighting the stereotyped answers that the analyst risks offering. Reference to the Decameron, allows a pathway of correspondences between the structure of Boccaccio's masterpiece and some key themes of psychoanalytic work, such as container/contained, story, oral/written, Eros/Thanatos, transience.

KEYWORDS: Contagion/contact, bodies, Decameron, ethics, oral/written, pandemic, trauma.