A reflection on forced migratory displacements and the status quo of the refugee presents itself, on a global scale, as an imperative issue. In an equally critical way, violence and its multiple forms of expression are evidenced as one of the most categorical contemporary adversities whose consideration is necessary. Such phenomena can be located repeatedly in history and their resurgence calls for psychoanalysis, a knowledge that dialogues with culture, to position itself in the face of its specificities. Considering the subjective configurations found within the scope of forced migration movements, clinical practice with refugees may reveal particularities, such as, contingentially, the presence of traumatic elements and expressive gaps in the representational capacity of the subjects, resulting from exposure to violence. With the theoretical framework based primarily on Freud and Lacan, it is proposed in this thesis, the resumption of the course of psychoanalysis regarding the conception of the term violence – approaching it mainly in the register of the imaginary – its developments, its articulation with the politics of trauma and, as an illustrative resource, with the experiences of diaspora through the literature promoted by authors with biographical migratory background. In this way, we intend to develop fundamental aspects for the logical understanding of the refugee subject and his borders, and of psychoanalysis and its littorals.