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This paper suggests that the theme of migration be considered as a metaphor for an interior psychic operation: the subjectalizing differentiation from the primary objects, which play a decisive role in adolescence. The issue of the subject is treated within a dialogue with sociologists, anthropologists, historians and philosophers, to the point of envisioning a plural subject open to the diversity of libidinal economies – characterized by the omnipresence of psychic bisexuality and infantile sexuality, here confronted with gender theory. Migration introduces one to ethnic, cultural, and also psychic mixing. A clinical example of adolescent psychical disorder generating elaboration and symbolization of interior strangeness illustrates the hypothesis: we are all migrants.