ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 extends the Freudian idea of a male sex representing the most important phylogenetic acquisition derived from the paternal complex, which women also receive as an inheritance. It develops the hypothesis that this male sex is a physical void and considers “the primary destructive impulse” (Winnicott) of the infant as the manifestation of this acquisition, which is made possible, thanks to the organization of substance which counterbalances the cruelty of the primal void inherited by the mother’s organism, reacting to the egg which it considers as a stranger.
