Geopolitical Borders and Psychic Borders: Is a Dialogue Possible? Toward a Geoclinical Practice Centered on the Subject of Migrants.

As the current burning topic of border closures demonstrates-whether they result from the Covid-19 pandemic or the construction of anti-migrant walls-in today's world, borders are making a comeback. My experience as a researcher in France's Calais , a migrant encampment situated close to the border with the United Kingdom-as well as the case study of a refugee patient seen in psychanalytic consultation in Paris-serves to demonstrate how the experience of borders enduringly affects the psyches and bodies of migrants. This article examines the close relationship between psychic life and geopolitical life, as well as the way in which the border experience desubjectivizes as much as it opens up the possibility of resubjectivation.

Giving birth in exile: motherhood as reterritorialization.

This paper explores the effects of exile on the subjectivity of pregnant migrant women through the lens of the processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. Having escaped the gaze of the parental superego, the subject's encounter with sexuality becomes possible. However, in addition to the emancipatory aspects of migration, we observe particular somatic-psychical effects on reproductive ability.