Contemporary centration on ethnical identity is objectified from beliefs and etiological theories on the one hand and from the analysis of techniques for care on the other. Here there is a danger of us promoting an ethnicist fundamentalism that will inevitably lead us to losing sight of the « subject in exile » as soon as an attempt is made to generalise and validate these anthropological objects of beliefs and etiological models into a psychotherapeutic technique essential for care devoted to the exiled. Relying on clinical analysis of the transmission in exile, we shall attempt to show how the symptom (shown by certain migrants when they symbolically declare themselves to be passers of places and time) condenses heterogeneous and mixed references, bringing each individually to come to grips with their filiation. The place to be devoted to clinical listening in an institution for care is also explained.

Filiation Maternal Anthropology Exile Child-ancestor Puerperal psychosis Symptom Feminine Ethnopsychiatry

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