pandemi sürecinde müziğin insan ruhsallığındaki işlevine dair düşünceler*

This article discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed psychoanalytic practices and people's life experiences, and examines how the social isolation measures that had to be taken due to the lethal effects of the virus resonated in the psyche. It also elaborates which defense mechanisms may have been activated with reference to Klein's theory. Art has a role in contacting the inner world at a deeper level and expressing symbolically unspeakable emotions. Music, as a form of art, keeps people away from the conflicts in their inner world, reveals emotions, and reactivates bonds by recalling the lost object internally against the losses experienced. The first sound heard, the mother's voice, leaves traces in the baby's/child's memory. The newborn, who begins to differentiate between the mother's voice and other sounds, begins a dialogue with the mother. It is also mentioned that music has a paternal function because it contains a set of rules, and therefore it has a feature that activates the baby to explore the outside world. Based on the literature, the article discusses the function of music in the human psyche during the pandemic by focusing on the regression in the face of traumatic situations and the healing function of music through regression and discusses the increase in the practices of listening to music and learning how to play a musical instrument during the pandemic.