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The maternal erotic lies at the foundation of human psychic material around a shared and necessary primal seduction. The cultural superego imposes a general repression and, specifically, the combined repression of the primordial incest and the erogeneity of the vagina under the primacy of the phallus. Should the birth trauma not be reconsidered as a traumatic experience of a primordial mother-child incest that is imposed by nature and rejected by culture?? The analytic treatment with its metaphor of ma??eutic art and its promise of rebirth through knowledge reactualises this primordial incest fantasy between psychic apparatuses.