[The exile from self.].

Abstract

In this text, three psychotics, Sarah, Jacob and Jonathan ask us the question : From where were they exiled? We come to understand that Sarah's was from her origins. Jacob sees himself ejected from his own being. As for Jonathan, his will be even worse; he must exile himself from his delusions, from his craziness, because he seems to be heading towards a real cure. Thus the other question : What is the nature of the suffering of psychotics? Very strangely, the most forceful rupture arises when these patients must remove themselves from their craziness. They themselves know that nothing is easier for them than to allow themselves to founder there; the mentally ill are attracted, as to a magnet, to the desert the abyss, the non-being, in short to self-exile.