ABSTRACT
The transfer of the father as male sexual power is not concerned with the sexual reproduction of mortals but with the fabrication of replicas which permit the subject to build his immortal body which alone is subject to castration. By making the phallus the exclusive attribute of the Other that determines ipso facto the castration of the subject, Lacan radicalizes Freud’s thinking on the renunciation of immortal life as the condition of castration. Freud and Lacan consider the subject as preconstituted and evacuate the cruelty underlying the necessary transmission of the thrust of immortal life that escapes from the primitive inside when the membranes rupture, although it still contains the system that maintains the central void of the subject. A rereading of the Piggle and Little Hans illustrate this quest of their identification with the father as a principle of eternity. The Rat Man’s obsessions illustrate the rites and madness that this identification implies.
