ABSTRACT
In 1925, Sigmund Freud confides to his disciple Kardiner that his patients no longer interest him unless they contribute to his own theories. Lacan's use of the term "regulation" suggests that myths are necessary to legitimize sexual desire. This is the way, as we have seen, that Freud himself uses the Oedipus myth with Little Hans, in order to lift the small boy's repression of his aggressiveness towards his father. The particularly Darwinian version of the myth does not, however, account for the bond of love that binds the sons to the father. It is only because they love him that they take him as a model. Freud does not seem very far from the myth of Oedipus when he constructs the figure of the Urvater of the horde. The foundation for the prohibition of jouissance is not the myth of the father's supreme power and the consequences of his murder are not what might have been expected.
