ABSTRACT
Several statements support the idea that Sigmund Freud projected his feelings of guilt onto the anonymous Hero in a way that was similar to the company of brothers whereby the Hero alone became responsible for the murder of the primal father. In any event, there are some issues that do indeed substantiate the idea that Freud’s turn to phylogensis was caused by the intention to portray himself and his parents as innocent participants in the oedipal situation. This idea lies in the tradition of M. Balmary, M. Krull and J. Kupfersmid who assume that neither Freud’s published nor his unpublished arguments were relevant but rather that psychical reasons were responsible for his rejecting the seduction theory. Along with D. Freeman it seems that the guilt Freud must have experienced—in Sophocles drama it is followed by blinding which Freud understands as “castration”— was probably the reason why he was attracted to Darwin’s theory of the primal horde.
