Six Variations on Exile’s States

In these musings, which are an extension of those begun on the theme of the foreigner, the author explores the boundary between the intimacy of the representations which are at work in therapy and the collective and social figures which contribute to their composition. On the basis of examples taken from social relations, the symbolism of a political speech, the articulation of suffering elaborated as a work of art, or the encapsulation of the unbearable as a narrative or story, he tries to show how exile functions at the point where fear and creation intersect, and suggests metaphorically the importance of the inner representation of exile in phobic complexes.