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Violence, non-dit et ruptures de lien marquent le parcours de jeunes adultes itinérants. Face à l’indicible et l’impossible à métaboliser, l’agir et la répétition semblent condamner à l’errance. Et pourtant, à même cet engrenage mortifère, on peut entrevoir un espace où la répétition n’est pas destruction, mais quête obstinée de mise en sens et d’inscription, acte-signe qui interpelle par son maintien subversif de l’espoir.

Between the Unspeakable and a Life of Homelessness, the Itinerant Existence as Significant of an Action Violence, repressed words and the breakdown of social bonds are common milestones in the lives of itinerant young adults. Faced with the impossibility of speaking the unspeakable and the impossibility of symbolising, these young people seem bound by processes of acting out and repetition which condemn them to a life of homelessness. Still, even within this mortifying vicious circle, we can identify an instance in which repetition is something other than destruction and becomes a dogged search for meaning and communication, an action of the utmost significance which engages our attention through its subversive safeguarding of hope.