The exile’s freedom from inherited identity is envied by the native
Evidence
Yet Kristeva also sees this position of liminality from its other side, as offering the immigrant and the exile a freedom from the burdens of historical representation carried by those who feel they have to defend the physical integrity of the nation or the race. It is just this transcendance of an imposed inheritance, and the license it gives to invent new forms of identity and belonging, that becomes the focus of envy on the part of “the indigenous”: a Lacanian version, then, of the classic Freudian theme of the return of the repressed. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1398
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims