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In the Mirror of Migration, or I on the One Side and I on the Other Side of a Truly Terrifying Stretch of Water

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with derangement of identity caused by the experience of migration. First, the author proposes a number of psychoanalytical conceptions (the uncanny, the mirror self-reflection, the doppelgänger) that could constitute a point of departure for a suitable argument. Next, he focuses on an analysis of four films (“House of Sand and Fog”, “Incendies”, “His House”, “The Babysitter”), which depict the migration experience from various angles. In doing so, he extracts recurring motifs of mirror reflections and the aquatic element, which turn out to be a key to the image of identity split by dislocation and capable of communication with itself and the surrounding only under the condition of recognising the fundamental aporias of its conditio. The author devotes particularly vast attention to the manner in which this derangement is manifested in parent-child relations.

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