BETWEEN ESCAPE AND EMIGRATION: THE QUEST FOR AN IDENTITY

Marie-Ange Nohra Merhi

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BETWEEN ESCAPE AND EMIGRATION: THE QUEST FOR AN IDENTITY

Authors:

Marie-Ange Nohra Merhi

Publisher:

Beirut Arab University Press

Journal:

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior Vol.5 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

8/2023

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001951121

pISSN:

2789-8296

Keywords:

Encounter- emigration- rupture - trauma- identity- transfer- identification

Abstract:

 A real doubt marks the enterprise of an individual, to think of a human dimension that is internal to him, but grows outside him. The desire born in him, develops externally and depends on environmental events. What does separation do as a traumatic incident hindering desire for a young person ? The best way to define desire, in the psychosocial and geocultural context of this century, would be to raise it in relation to its lack. Indeed, this paradox is inherent in the definition itself. At a certain level a schism takes place in human thought: a schism already existing in the very conception of desire, since wanting something presupposes a priori that this something is missing. Schism whose weight will be estimated with the clinical examination of the meetings and separations made by Rodrigue during his life. This case expose the extent of the psychic disaster caused by emigration. Lacan affirmed that "Desire is fundamentally [a priori or structurally] lacking in being." We will refer to the psychodynamic approach through the psychoanalyst Freud to understand & treat the patient in his separation problematic. Unlike Christophe Colombe who had gone to discover the new world, Rodrigue qualified as a troubadour given his many journeys punctuated by separations, only followed his parents on the path of their own emigration. The light given by Freud will allow as the analysis of the case progresses, to better understand Rodrigue, his psychological development, his flaws and tensions or the Identity defused. "Anyone who has the misfortune to immigrate once - only once! - will always remain metic all his life, and a foreigner everywhere, even in his country of origin. It's our curse as immigrants," says Pan Bouyoucas, a Canadian novelist born in Lebanon in 1946. From the news relating to the successive emigrations of this century, and referring in particular to the last wave of Lebanese emigration preceded by a wave of Syrian emigration and before Iraqi, and before Armenian, in the 4 corners of the world, was inspired this problem. What are the psychological consequences of encounters in the life of a young individual subjected to the migration process? Only in the course of these encounters, identity can curl, take risks, fade and verge on instability. From the Encounter to the Identity Crisis, there is only one step, crossed by the being who emigrates. There, in this no-man's land, is the Subject.

Article Details

BETWEEN ESCAPE AND EMIGRATION: THE QUEST FOR AN IDENTITY

Authors: Marie-Ange Nohra Merhi

Publisher: Beirut Arab University Press

Journal: BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior Vol.5 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 8/2023

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001951121

pISSN: 2789-8296

Encounter- emigration- rupture - trauma- identity- transfer- identification

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Authors:

Marie-Ange Nohra Merhi

Publisher:

Beirut Arab University Press

Journal:

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior Vol.5 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

8/2023

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001951121

pISSN:

2789-8296