ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on migratory origins, the materiality of place and the creative border between the immigrant and native are anchored in the idea that immigration is a critical category for psychoanalysis and that what it has to teach us is not limited to our work with those from foreign countries. One would consider that the psychoanalytic venture is always an immigrant's journey; that deeply buried archaic immigrations are constitutive of the individual psyche without any movement from one land to the other, that the immigrant throws into question the identity of the so-called native and not just her own, that we are all hybrid subjects. Psychoanalysis itself, after all, shares a great deal with the hybridized and hybridizing immigrant, for the improvisation of new cultural forms lies at the heart of the analytic enterprise. Place is a category largely neglected by psychoanalysis, which opts for the much less saturated, less physical, more mathematically abstract and universalized idea of space.
