experience of political exile and its consequences on subjectivity

Abstract

former Bolivian exiles who were refugees in Sweden.Although political exile has existed in many different times and circumstances, this text focuses on the period from 1971 since the coup d'etat of Banzer, until 1982 when democracy returned to set up. This is a dictatorial period when repression - including forced disappearances, detentions, torture and murder - was coordinated with other countries in the Southern Cone, under a clandestine intelligence service operation called the Condor Plan. Lacanian-oriented psychoanalysis offers a reading on the notion of subjectivity, and from this theoretical approach it is possible to read the consequences in each subject who lived the experience of a political exile, rescuing the singularity, since psychoanalysis has no desire to generalize the experience.