The motherhood under the pulsional theory outlook.This work aims at demonstrating that the different understandings of the psyche’s origins in certain texts of freudian metapsychology relate to different ways to comprehend maternity. Thus, in "The instincts’ destiny" (1915), maternity is associated to an external arousal that disorganizes the newborn’s psyche; on the other hand, an alternative reading of the theme based on notions such as erogenous masochism and life and death pulsions, is possible taking elements of analyses present in "Beyond pleasure principe" (1920) and "The economic problem of masochism" (1924).
Maternity; origin of the psyche; passivity; fusion of instinct