Internal refugees
By Sophie Braun
English
Under different names, such as social phobia, school phobia, burn-out or chronic fatigue, a phenomenon is amplifying: withdrawal into oneself. Between social and intimate, this loss of the meaning of the relationship reveals deep weaknesses in the psychic construction of the most sensitive persons. Their ego, dominated by narcissism and omnipotence does not allow the expression of the self. Access to the symbolic and creativity cannot be deployed and isolation becomes the only recourse against massive anguishes.