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Going home: migration as enactment and symbol.
The Journal of Analytical Psychology
|September 22, 2009
Summary
Migrants may experience alienation and melancholia, needing to mourn losses. Psychoanalytic work can help transform these feelings, enabling a sense of home after migration.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Psychoanalysis
- Sociology
Background:
- Explores the psychological impact of migration, including alienation and melancholia.
- Highlights the challenge of addressing core self-pain amidst cultural and environmental losses for migrants.
- References literary reflections on the migrant experience.
Observation:
- Details the history of an individual migrating from Latin America to London.
- Discusses the tendency for new arrivals to idealize their new environment.
- Examines the role of repetitive enactment in analytic transference.
Findings:
- Suggests repetitive enactment in transference confirmed the patient's internal estrangement.
- Proposes that mourning and symbolization are crucial for processing migration's impact.
- Indicates that working through loss and symbolization enabled the patient to create a home after a second migration.
Implications:
- Psychoanalytic therapy can facilitate mourning and symbolization for migrants.
- Successful therapeutic work can transform the experience of migration.
- Individuals can achieve a sense of belonging and 'good enough home' even after multiple migrations.
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