This work examines maternity from a historical point of view. I look into the discursive constructions which dominated the Classical Greece and the Enlightenment, analyzing Freud's specific texts. The main objective is to demonstrate the importance of the patriarchal tradition, which comes from Antiquity, on the phallic representation of maternity in Freud (although other interpretations are also possible). Three fundamental pillars sustain this tradition: the phallic monism, the essentialism in understanding the difference between sexes and the idea that mothers have children without the father's interference.
Maternity; phallic representantion; history; psychoanalysis