ABSTRACT
The topic of migration has been the subject of psychoanalytic investigation and discussion for some time. Notably, in recent decades, the immigrant experience has received extensive attention of noted psychoanalysts whose scholarly work was informed by their own personal experience of migration. In contrast, the role of migration and immigration in the formation of a psychoanalytic identity has received scant coverage in the psychoanalytic literature. Although unconscious positive elements emerged only later in the analysis, the author was conscious from the very beginning of a particular set of positive feelings about his analyst. The ideal of searching for truth through psychoanalysis comes face to face first with one's family of origin and later one's family of psychoanalytic supervisors, teachers, and colleagues. The author concludes with the thought that his training was but a beginning foray into the field, a necessary introduction to a methodology currently available and how to use it.
