Summary

Three different populations -V. Hugo's outcasts, concentration camp deportees and wandering and insecure, both adults and child – were meeting in our clinical

experience, and will be the medium of this work. We will examine each group in order to find points of similarity and difference in the issues they face and thus prove the psychological function of the « indeterminate » particulalry among actual wande and inse persons.

We will observe the types of ties formed by the subjects, characterised by their volatile, informal and divisible nature, which we will identify according to the notion of a « mooring  relationship ». We wish to show that this is a mode of survival for people wounded early in life ; it allows them to free themselves from former encroachement, proceeding from a weakness in coherent primary care as much as from a real traumatism. If this type of relationship is carried out by the present object in its precarious, unintelligible and paradoxical form, it could – as in the hypothesis of this present study – lead to a reprisal of the process; as these were suspended, in the subject's past, by the unpredictable nature of their primary care, without being destroyed.

We will refer largely to the work of D.W WINNICOTT concerning the function of the object, as primary or secondary. A great deal of the work will depend equally on the thematic of the « psychosocial clinic », the notions of narcissistic contract and of social objects will be used to explain the survival, amongst wandering persons, of a penchant for actual ties. We find it important to interrogate the question of the « informal » in therapy, in the sense that it does not correspond to the definition of a transferential link, but is situated largely prior to a relationship of this nature.

We will insist upon the importance of sensoriality as a comfort against the return of encroachement. Finally, we will examine the question of narrativity, as a process of restoring temporality, connecting wtih the poetic prospect.