TY - BOOK AU - Foy-Sauvage,Ludmilla TI - Going away to escape a secret? Reflections on the intra- and inter-personal changes related to expatriation PY - 2021///. N1 - 59 N2 - 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 UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-dialogue-2021-3-page-41?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -