ABSTRACT
Mary Shelley’s story Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus has become a modern myth, which beyond the enjoyment of its reading, warns of the danger of attempting to pervert the course of nature. As a child, Victor Frankenstein opted out of the Oedipal confrontation. He did not compete with his father to bear, or to possess the phallus, but revelled in the sublime enjoyment of nature, his adopted sister’s beauty and his mother’s ability to provide serenity and comfort. Whilst enjoying nature, he also noticed its overwhelming and dangerous force and decided that this was what he wanted to control. Outside the expertise of his forefathers, Victor studied and decided to embark on the adventure of giving birth outside sexuality, making himself the catalyst of a process in which nature (electricity) self-fecundates the earth, the dead flesh of bodies. The return to the pre-Oedipal world could not be anything for mankind other than a catastrophe. Victor’s way did not involve castration and the confirmation of human fundamental taboos. His lawless creation and the lawlessness of his position led to death, not simply the punishment of the transgressive perpetrator, but death in his family as a warning about social cohesion.
