Rémi and David from anomie to autonomy. The archetypal orphan in the process of self-development

Thanks to the early experience of the anomie, the orphan lives an initial condition of ' the chosen one'. The journey in quest of a family and a 'name' becomes an initiation into autonomy that is the acquisition of a defined and autonomous self rooted in a family history. A sort of conquest/construction of a family tree that is an important background in order to reach the autonomy phase, which is obtained at the end of the initiation path. From a social point of view, the orphan turns into an historical individual representing the archetypical emblem of the industrial society at all times: the self-made man. The only locus possible for a transformation like that is the city. The city that was the cradle of the new “Economic Man” generated from the industrial revolution is the symbolic city of London.