ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses two analytic cases that illustrate how during and after experiences of migration, the migrant may suffer internal conflict and undergo an intense struggle to integrate their experiences and to adjust to a new sense of themselves. It describes processes of psychic integration, which are bound up essentially with processes of social integration in the new country. The migrant experiences difficulty "finding himself" or "feeling himself", or knowing who he is. The chapter sketches further by failure to connect or to maintain internal contact–the loss of "connectedness"–turned to the philosophy of Richard Wollheim. For Wollheim, personal identity is formed through "experiential memory", of past and present events and trauma. The two cases show different levels of internal struggle towards psychic integration and personal identity. The impact of loss was shown in a failure to connect emotionally, a loss of "connectedness", and occurred particularly when splitting perpetuated internal conflict.
