L’exil intime qui nous fonde

Exile reveals the strength of the subject who refuses violence. The exiled is a subject who carries the guilty imaginary of the abandonment of his native land. Not only is there an exile in space, but also a linguistic and cultural one, which affects the subjectivity and the representation that a su...

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Main Author: Adelaide Gregorio Fins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Portugaise d'Etudes Françaises 2017-04-01
Series:Carnets
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/carnets/2255
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Summary:Exile reveals the strength of the subject who refuses violence. The exiled is a subject who carries the guilty imaginary of the abandonment of his native land. Not only is there an exile in space, but also a linguistic and cultural one, which affects the subjectivity and the representation that a subject can have of its own identity. This way, the intimate exile of the subject lies in the fact of language and founds his subjective experience composed by melancholy and trauma, for the exiled is the other and the other – or the stranger – shows us how much we are alien to ourselves. If Julia Kristeva is the example of a successful exile through language, the psychoanalytic dimension of her work highlights that knowledge cannot be complete, since it misses the specificity of the modern subject. Alongside Paul Ricœur and Martha Nussbaum, this reflection questions the sense of the human and linguistic transmission of intimacy and solicitude through the question of narrative and literary identity.
ISSN:1646-7698