Abstract

In the field of psychology, the topic of everyday life as a specific subject of inquiry has been afforded little attention. The structuring power of the everyday is placed at the centre of this reflection which, from a phenomenological perspective, emphasises the centrality of the taken-for-granted dimension of the everyday. The taken-for-granted reality can only exist in the social sharing that implies intersubjectivity, a basic and intrinsic condition of the taken-for-granted everyday. Reference is made to two studies conducted in the phase of the most severe lockdown, mid-March to mid-May 2020, which show how the sudden suspension of personal and collective everyday life is accompanied by a sense of emptiness, the need to reconstruct a daily routine that is perceived as the core of the condition of normality