Primal Horde Myth
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.110
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **The Clinical Relevance of Freud's Myth of the Primal Horde**
Theoretical move: Through two clinical vignettes, Fink demonstrates the contemporary clinical relevance of Freud's myth of the primal horde: both analysands unconsciously organize their desire around a paternal figure who is experienced as the primordial owner of all women, producing characteristic inhibitions, triangulating structures, and symptomatic solutions (erectile dysfunction, passive fantasy) that are intelligible only through that mythic framework.
All women are his father's, to his mind, not his. In this sense, his father is, to his mind, like the father of the primal horde.