The present article aims to recover a turning point in Oscar Terán’s intellectual career: that of his time during his exile in Mexico. It will be argued as an hypothesis that among the 70s and 80s, Terán produces a set of political and intellectual displacements through a discursive operation here called “deranged thinking”. The exile in Mexico will be understood as a condition to the derangement of his previous “ideological passions”. Which is that gets deranged in and for Terán? The body that goes into exile and the ideas accompanying that body. In the Mexican scenography Terán will envisage a set of theoretical and political matters banned before, which will allow him to start the construction of a long-term discourse for his posterior intellectual path.