Freud s myth of the rebellion of the sons against the father in the primal, prehistoric horde is not a historical explanation of origins, but a supra-historical archetype; eternally recurrent; a myth; an old, old story. Freud seems to proiect into prehistoric times the constitutional crisis of seventeenth-century England. The primal father is absolute monarch of the horde; the fe- males are his property. The sons form a conspiracy to overthrow the despot, and in the end substitute a social contract with equal rights for all. This anachronistic his- tory directs us to look for the recurrence of the archetype in the seventeenth century. Cf. Freud, Moses and Monotheism, 13o-133, 188. J
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