ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Freud's esteem in regard to his own psychoanalytic itinerary in order to attempt to say more about the particular place that Freud holds for Faust. The fathers of the church in the fourth century, in order to endeavour to explain these conflicting presentations of the devil, in their attempt to establish a coherent doctrine, invented the mythology of the fall of Satan. However there was little agreement as to what the cause of this fall from grace might have been and hence there are many versions. Freud remarks in a footnote that in the original manuscript there is some indication that this enjoyment and entertainment has a specifically sexual meaning. Like Freud proposes with the painter, what is represented in the bond is a demand for the Devil to release him from his self-enclosed suffering, his soul not specifically demanded by the devil but offered by Faust.
