Abandonment and dislocation in the border line to United States of America

• Main Author: Laura Echavarría Canto
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Córdova; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas 2017-04-01
• Series: Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Cuerpos, Emociones y Sociedad
• Subjects: MIGRACIÓN; MIGRANTES MEXICANOS ILEGALES; SUBJETIVIDAD; DISLOCACIÓN; DESAMPARO
• Online Access: http://relaces.com.ar/index.php/relaces/article/view/406

From psychoanalitic categories of abandonment (Grinberg, 1996), subject missing (Lacan, 1964; Zizek, 1998) and dislocated subject (Laclau 1993, 2001) testimonies from illegal mexican migrants are analyzed with respect to leaving a country of origin, meaning a symbolic abandon of a protective land, which besides the very dangerous border crossing creates a traumatic dislocative situation of subjectivities and make deep feelings of abandonment happen. Such feeling gets deeper on the subject of the border crossing, which could be explained by the search of a minimun level of economic welfare, which would operate as the irruption of the Lacanian Real that generates processes of dislocation in the subject, dislocation that represents the structural failure of the symbolic order and its constitutive incompletiveness, but also involves an imaginary migrant of ideals of plenitude. (In Lacan, Real threats, denies and questions the simbolic order, shows the failure of the identity, makes visible its dislocation, creating the need for new identifications through which it is intended once more to suture the structure). In this context, the role-impact of the so called american dream in the migrant subjectivity, is also profoundly analysed.