`titrebParricide and Infanticide – Realities, Representations and the Paternal Cycle. Perspectives on our Globalised Age.`/titreb Parricide is a social reality, however statistically marginal, and a highly ‘performative’ representation, in that it is both creative and an expression of the cultural operative force paternity embodies. This article analyses modifications in representations of parricide in contemporary society and compares this with the paternal cycle set forward by Freud in Totem and Taboo. It then explores the emergence of the cultural fantasy of infanticide as a contemporary figure of absolute evil. In the current age of globalisation, the disqualification of fathers with immigrant backgrounds might then be seen as the sign of a rejection of father figures who have today become unacceptable, in that they are identified with the ‘hardest’ form of fatherhood within the paternal cycle.