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.
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