The meeting with the patient with a serious and non-curative illness makes us think about the indivisible link between the psyche and the body. The progress of the cancer, the invasive, mutilating treatment and the appropriation of the sick body by the medical profession throw the patient somewhere else that he/she does not know yet. The attacks of the unconscious image of the body send back to this untranslatable notion of S. Freud: Unheimliche. The patient lives as a foreigner in his own body, where he undergoes a travel from a place to another one while staying on the same territory. He is at the boundary or between two states. © 2017, Lavoisier.

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