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The masterpiece of the Spanish monk is at the origin of the myth of Don Juan. Is he a libertine? Alberto Eiguer has made a remarkable analysis of this inveterate seducer who refuses constraints and cannot become attached because it would mean losing his independence. For Michel Fain, Don Juan and his emulators present a hypersexuality. Thanks to their art of seducing, they fool husbands and make women come as never before. With the tender current repressed, all that subsists is the sexual current towards objects held in low esteem.Three mythical works, Tirso de Molina’s The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest; Molière’s Dom Juan or the Feast of Stone; and Don Giovanni or the Rake Punished by Da Ponte (Mozart) will show the differences between the groups of Don Juan’s emulators, their victims and their accusers.There is a link uniting the group of their creators: they are all emulators of Don Juan, fascinated by him, the leader of the horde who kills the father in order to seize power and possess the women.