ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to understand certain anxieties and defences when faced with a foreign language and what is foreign in general, both difficulties having, of course, common roots. In fact, the 'foreign body' is Satan, particularly in cases of possession of a woman, generally speaking. The devil, just like the repressed foreign body, is supposed to dominate, to produce dangerous, evil, and uncontrollable effects. Projection reveals itself when one attributes to foreigners our own shortcomings or difficulties: for example, the inhibition to learn a foreign language, which is rather characteristic of certain 'civilized' countries such as France and England. Intonation, the melody of a language, is characteristic and here, too, one can identify the origin of the person who is speaking, as well as his/her cultural level. The mistakes made when expressing oneself in a foreign language are accompanied by a sort of stubbornness, either anal or narcissistic.
