ABSTRACT

The importance of the problem of the “stranger” and the principles (ideological, juridical, political) that define it are related to the great migrations of people around the globalised world. These themes are among the “new discomforts of society” (Kaës) and refer to the new psychoanalytic paradigm (Puget), which is the problem of links, alliances and unconscious pacts relevant to the subject’s inevitable dependence on and participation in belonging groups, and to the prejudices related to them. I intend to propose prejudices as subjective premises inside us that are not questioned and not conflictual and, even if perceived, are not often represented nor the object of critical thought, because one’s own prejudices are “obvious” to onself!