The identity in exile: Between the fear of being forgotten and the unconscious fantasy of betrayal. Clinical work with asylum seekers [L'Identité dans l'exil: Entre crainte de l'oubli et fantasme inconscient de trahison. Le travail clinique auprès de demandeurs d'asile]

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The identity in exile: Between the fear of being forgotten and the unconscious fantasy of betrayal. Clinical work with asylum seekers [L'Identité dans l'exil: Entre crainte de l'oubli et fantasme inconscient de trahison. Le travail clinique auprès de demandeurs d'asile] (Article)

Desplechin F.*

^a Csapa AMPTA, 39a, rue Nationale, Marseille, 13001, France, Osiris, 4, avenue Rostand, Marseille, 13003, France

Abstract

Migration invites the psychologist to consider the profound relationship between exile and identity. The fact that some of the migrants say that they "don't know anymore who they are", or the fact that some of them live through a psychic collapse when they get the agreement on political asylum, leads us to hypothesize that there is, inside of the exile problematic, a fear of being forgotten which is based on an unconscious fantasy of betrayal. Therefore, migration, will not be seen as limited to the question of intercultural or mourning, and will lead us to think of exile as a profound psychical experience related to question of identity in its singular dimension. Copyright © 2015 John Libbey Eurotext.

Author Keywords

Ideal self Other Exile Symbolic Psychic conflict

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84921915660&doi=10.1684%2fipe.2014.1291&partnerID=40&md5=a02bd282964425999be09d066226c4f5

DOI: 10.1684/ipe.2014.1291

ISSN: 00200204

Cited by: 1

Original Language: French