His Majesty, the Exchange Student: Exchange as an Attempt to Return to a Completeness Illusion

The article addresses the issue of cultural exchange program, mainly what it is referred to exchange in high school by adolescents from a psychoanalytic understanding, which means to understand the process in which the subject lives abroad and its relation to narcissism.From psychoanalytic theory and specific literature on exchange program it is proposed a theoretical understanding about gymnastics wall decals the situation of living overseas which it may be for some exchange students in certain experiences an synovex one grass attempt of returning to a completeness illusion, lived primordially in childhood.It is proposed also that in order to this exchange student to have a genuine experience he may experience four different stages: cultural helplessness, His Majesty, the Exchange Student, Castration/Cultural Adaptation and Citizen of the World.