title: ["I am estranged, just as I am." Migration experience, ego identity and neurosis].
abstract: Some specific psychic phenomena which can occur in overcoming the migration process are discussed with reference to case studies. The possibility of a derailed and chaotic communication is shown. The change of socio-cultural membership can destabilize the ego and ego-identity and lead to transculturally generated unconsciousness. Symptoms of angst, or neurotic symptoms can result if pre-formed unconscious conflicts represent too great a threat to the weakened ego. For the child's ego these burdens can pose threats to the psychological maturation. The therapeutic goal is to restore ego-stability and narcissictic stability, as well as the development of a new psycho-social identity. This is possible if the patient in psychoanalysis experiences a responsive opposite, so that the disrupted inter- connections between the life-history, the various social super-ego structures, norms and contradictions can be named and understood.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kohte-Meyer
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004532:Ego; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy
vernacular_title: "Ich bin fremd, so wie ich bin."--Migrationserleben, Ich-Identität und Neurose.