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This text draws on the clinical treatment of acted-out parricide to deepen the metapsychological knowledge of the father complex. It shows that this act does not amount a mere drive discharge of hatred but to a destiny of the erotic drive turned towards the father, revealing the defence through the double reversal of passivity into activity and of Eros into destructiveness under the influence of the ideal ego and anal fixations that organise regression. Parricide is simultaneously the substitutive realisation of a desire for the (masculine in the) father and a defence against this desire. The question of the transmission of a phallic power that recognises its own limit and therefore even the possibility of an identification with a father who accepts castration proves to be a fundamental issue of this act that can be understood as an attempt to wrest the rejected legacy of the masculine from the adversary.