Abstract:
In Totem and Taboo, Freud mentions a mythical father - Urvater - a symbolic idea of an original man that can be inferred as a mythical presupposition from which a model of man will be proposed. In the face of this, we ask ourselves: what are the “mythological” presuppositions of psychoanalysis from which the Freudian woman has become admissible? We aim to identify, in Freud’s work, whether mythology served as a resource for proposing the female model. Thus, we discuss the initial Freudian recourse to think of female sexuality as the inescapable opposite model of male sexuality.
Keywords:
Freud; mythology; woman; feminine sexuality