Giving Birth in Exile: Motherhood as Reterritorialization
Résumé
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. These “exile” pregnancies are generally experienced as
difficult and painful, laying bare a symptomatology this is as much psychical as
somatic, and which highlights the cost of a desire for independence. In this context,
where perinatal risks must be evaluated and treated through an interdisciplinary
approach, a clinical accompaniment proves to be indispensable for the maternity to
progress smoothly on foreign soil.
Domaines
Psychologie
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