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VINAR, Marcelo. Subject in exile: between being in intimacy and being in extreme political violence.Traducido porJulia Tomasini. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2017, vol.51, n.1, pp. 167-176. ISSN 0486-641X.

“I know who I am and I know who I can be” was the pretentious and quixotic assertion which characterized the Western rationalism throughout the Age of Enlightenment. This certainty, however, is destroyed by the “off-centered” (or eccentrical) subject, whom the Freudian unconscious discovers or invents. Freud himself considers it as the third strongest hit against humankind's narcissistic megalomania. Copernicus's and Darwin's discoveries, he continues, would be the first two. We partially are foreigners to ourselves; therefore, we are subjects in exile. The barbarism of political violence works on this structural basis. The “hot” genocide of war and the “cold” genocide of xenophobia and exclusion are affected. This paper's purpose is to fight against the medicalization of victims. The author attempts to distinguish the psychologically damaged individuals from the undamaged ones in order to emphasize the factors that provide or promote (or, on the other hand, prevent) expressions of human destructiveness.

Palabras clave : structural and interior exile; exile related to political violence.

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