ABSTRACT
Pierre Fedida considers the psychoanalytic situation as a “site of the stranger”, based on the foundational myth of the murder of the primal father. In Freud's work, the “event of the murder of the father” mainly concerns the origin of humanity and the constitution of a primitive ego, but Fedida, transposing it in an original way to analysis, sees it as both the point of origin and the horizon of every analysis. He thus puts “negative hallucination” at the centre of his theory of analysis: the analyst is the stranger and his presence is an “absent presence”. The site of the stranger is a place of passage, of transportation, that is marked not only by the strangeness of the analyst but also by other forms like that of the unconscious, a language worked on by transference regression, that of the fossil memory of the infantile, and, finally, that of the transference of which the dream is the paradigm.
