The fact that Freud based his work on Dostoievski's text recalls the Freudian theory of the father and its impasses. Oedipus, Totem and taboo and Moses and monotheism are the three main moments of the Freudian writing of the father. Although, along those texts, Freud is confronted with some impasses, he provides elements for us to take the father in a symptomatic formation and aspect. At the end of that analysis, in Moses, the father will arise explicitly as writing and symptom.
Dostoiesvski; father; symptom; super-ego; language