Abstract

FUKS, Betty Bernardo. Voices of exile: on the impossible of identity. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2017, vol.51, n.1, pp. 32-45. ISSN 0486-641X.

This study deals with the theme of exile from a psychoanalytic perspective. This paper is based on Freud's statement of having had his thinking strongly influenced by reading the Bible during childhood. The author recalls some ancestral narratives of the Old Testament which testify to the phenomenon of wandering or an exodus that is always repeated. The paper shows that, in Moses and monotheism, Freud establishes a contrast between the human condition of being a foreigner and the notion of identity, when he constructs the Egyptian origin of the greater prophet of the Jews. The foreigner in the constitution of the ego is the point on which this last great work reiterates the psychoanalytic principle that the origin of the subject, whether individual or collective, comes from the Other, from the heterogeneous in relation to oneself.

Keywords : exile; diaspora; foreigner; identity; identification.

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