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Abstract
Within the Christian thought, the Adamic myth of the book of Genesis rises as a key piece in the human being’s endeavor to decipher the enigma of evil. But already at the height of the Twentieth Century we find another myth which also describes a tragic drama in the very origin of the human misfortune. It is the one described by Freud in Totem and Taboo. By the present article it is intended to analyze the existent similitude between both proposals, considering that in both of them, the last source of the disaster is placed on the human aspiration to reach an omnipotence. The psychoanalytic perspective rules over the intent of understanding.