Abstract
As a contribution to the symposium on Cinema and Psychiatry, the author proposes to question the paradigm of the humanoid – here, an extra-terrestrial being. How strangeness, associated with difference and furthermore with psychopathology, especially in the psychoses, can be grasped through their representation in cinema? Living through moments of depersonalization and derealisation, Thomas Jerome Newton alias David Bowie in the title role of Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth (1974) is torn by dilemma – his irreductible strangeness is due to two irreconcilable and incompatible worlds – his planet of origin, Anthea and the Earth he fell to.
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