Abstract:
This theoretical article discusses the desubjectivation that could be involved in migration and refuge experience. Psychoanalytical contributions about the strange, the death drive and the narcissism of small differences are revisited to discuss contemporary practices of violence to foreigners. Based on Silvia Bleichmar’s propositions about self-preservation of life and self-preservation of the I, processes in which reality institutes or destitutes ways of subjectivity are explored. The reflection on migration and refuge requires the inclusion of subjective aspects that directly interfere in the vicissitudes of those involved.
Keywords:
migration; refuge; psychoanalysis; desubjectivation; violence