This paper discusses exclusion as the effect of mechanisms that are at the same time assimilatory and racist. Racism is here understood as the effect of a process involving both the subjective fear of dealing with the desire of the other/stranger and a fine network of articulated powers. The aim of this reflection is to initiate a dialogue, however timid, with Michel Foucault as well as with authors who recur to a psychoanalytic approach. The intent is not to demonstrate there may have any points of intersection among the various theoretical groups they represent, but rather to point out the need to fashion a tool that explains the bonding of mechanisms of power to the subject's functioning, subject who usually lets himself be entangled by them.
(Ab)Normality; Michel Foucault; Psychoanalysis; Strange; Foreign; Sigmund Freud; Desire