ABSTRACT
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. S. Freud's "prosthetic" idea is an amazingly original concept: a form of mechanical or electronic device designed as an allograft which makes the whole body somehow artefactual, though unusually powerful. The dream of a parentless society can be easily traced in current collective imaginary and culture. The dream of a society of individual peer-group members united by friendship and almost twinned by their fatherlessness and parent-lessness is already a form of the ideal of solidarity and brotherhood of an egalitarian society. Social institutions are born of an alliance between the brothers, that is, of a recognition of the norm and by "paternal" authority. Narcissistic demands can explain how "brothers", rather than differentiate or recognise themselves as different and give free play to individual expression, may construct in their unconscious fantasy of components a syncretic group which lets in only individuals linked to each other by a symbiotic relationship.
