ABSTRACT
Abraham was researching depression and his interest focused on this melancholy character who lost his mother when he was five years old. Giovanni idealised her and worshipped her through his art, not having completely repressed his instincts and impulses. His knowledge of anthropology had helped him lay some of the foundations of psychoanalysis. In 1912 Abraham published a new study in which he applied his multiple interests in the analytic field to the case of Amenhotep IV, the first monogamous pharaoh and founder of monotheism. In 1920 he published an article which had the opposite objective: The Cultural Significance of Psycho-Analysis. The psychiatric appraisal of a prisoner for the courts gave rise to the elaboration of a solid theory that explained the antisocial impulses of this fraudster and the key to his transformation due to a profound turn of events in N's emotional life.
