The Traumas of Displacement and Not Belonging

The integration of the personality opens from the traumatic throes causing despair and confusion manifesting in dissociations in body and psyche. This paper traces the effects of trauma from displacement occurring culturally and psychologically as each affects the other. The perspective of Jungian analytical psychology referencing the concept of the shadow is combined with French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva referring to the abject. These are diverse yet aligned analytical approaches to widen understanding of the interactions between self and other, psyche and body. The clinical examples are narratives exemplifying the traumas from lacks in belonging to culture, family and self.