Este escrito surge como consecuencia de la investigación del duelo y el trabajo de análisis. Para su realización se indaga, en la obra de Sigmund Freud la particularidad del trabajo del duelo en la neurosis, que concluye con un resto que es inherente al duelo que Freud lo llama “cicatriz”, en su texto “Duelo y melancolía”. Asimismo se toma de la enseñanza de Jacques Lacan el lugar que ocupan los rituales para el proceso del duelo, y los efectos que pueden tener las diferentes contingencias como las pandemias/ epidemias en el sujeto, y para dar cuenta de ello, se tomará al historiador investigador en el tema Maximiliano Fiquepron. Palabras clave Mourning - Rituals - Pandemics - Psychoanalysis ABSTRACT THE MOURNING, THE RITUALS AND THE PANDEMICS This paper is the result of the investigation of mourning and psychoanalysis work. For its realization, we focus on mourning in neurosis in the work of Sigmund Freud. In the text “Mourning and melancholy”, Freud expresses that after mourning is over, it ends with a remainder called a “scar” and that re-mainder cannot be eliminated. On the other hand, for the realization of mourning rituals have a place of im-portance as a symbolic attempt that has to do with reality and to account for this, the place that rites occupy for the process of mourning, the consequences of abbreviating or modifying them as in the analysis of the character of Hamlet. The historian Maximiliano Fiquepron will be taken into account for the effects that different contingencies can have on the alteration of rituals such as: pan-demics / epidemics in the subject as they produce modifications in collective and singular customs regarding practices usual. Keywords Mourning - Rituals - Pandemics - Psychoanalysis