ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud was deeply attached to his mother, and supposed that all male children felt a similar preference. But as a man of his times, he placed the father at the family’s summit. And he was personally inclined to identify with the spiritual teachers of the Hebrew tradition. He thought of the father as the guide who, departing from a still amorphous child, constructed a social being. And by introjecting such a father figure, the child laid the basis of morality; at the end of the period of intense attachment with the mother, the child gave birth to an interior authority (the Super-ego) which referred as an ideal to God the Father, to the personal father, and to other hierarchical figures.
