Going away to escape a secret? Reflections on the intra- and inter-personal changes related to expatriation
Foy-Sauvage, Ludmilla
Going away to escape a secret? Reflections on the intra- and inter-personal changes related to expatriation - 2021.
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This article offers some reflections based on the psychoanalytic follow-up of expatriate subjects whose psychic organisation has been built around a family secret. I hypothesise here that expatriation, as voluntary displacement, may allow certain subjects to work through a traumatic event kept secret by their parents. This reflection is part of the extension of a psycho-analytic conception of expatriation (Drweski, 2015) and is based on the notion of ego-splitting as developed by Gérard Bayle (2012), that of inner dual stranger (Jung, 2015) and of Secret (Tisseron, 2001). The cases study of Doris, a French expatriate whom I followed as part of research work conducted abroad, illustrates these concepts. The physical distance appears to enable her to free herself psychologically from the secret’s confining effects, and foster a positive trend in family discourse.
Going away to escape a secret? Reflections on the intra- and inter-personal changes related to expatriation - 2021.
59
This article offers some reflections based on the psychoanalytic follow-up of expatriate subjects whose psychic organisation has been built around a family secret. I hypothesise here that expatriation, as voluntary displacement, may allow certain subjects to work through a traumatic event kept secret by their parents. This reflection is part of the extension of a psycho-analytic conception of expatriation (Drweski, 2015) and is based on the notion of ego-splitting as developed by Gérard Bayle (2012), that of inner dual stranger (Jung, 2015) and of Secret (Tisseron, 2001). The cases study of Doris, a French expatriate whom I followed as part of research work conducted abroad, illustrates these concepts. The physical distance appears to enable her to free herself psychologically from the secret’s confining effects, and foster a positive trend in family discourse.
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