Moving Away from the Familiar

The online etymology dictionary tells us that the word ‘emigrant’ comes ‘from the Latin emigrantem (nominative emigrans), present participle of emigrare, ‘move away’.[2] Why was psychoanalysis founded by this person who ‘moved away’? And from what did Freud move away but from that which was familiar, not only to him, but also the rest of us. ‘Familiar’-from Latin familiaris, ‘domestic, private, belonging to a family…The Latin plural, used as a noun, meant ‘the slaves’.[3] The family unit is the primary influencing structure in the psychological development of the individual, in the psychoanalytic view.…