Abstract

The text analyzes the Frankenstein myth starting with the famous phrase "It’s living," highlighting that the doctor refers to his creature as "it," that is, as a thing and not as a human being. The profound meaning of Victor Frankenstein’s experiment is not to cure or bring back to life someone who already existed, but to create human life from death, defying the natural limits of reproduction.

This act is an aspiration characteristic of the Enlightenment spirit: humanity’s attempt to take God’s place through science. However, when the creature comes to life, the creator experiences horror and rejection, revealing the ethical and psychological conflict of having gone "beyond the father."

From a psychoanalytic perspective, the central drama of the myth is the absence of filial desire: the creature is neither desired, named, nor recognized as a child. Therefore, it is reduced to a laboratory product, without identity or a place in a line of descent. This explains its condition as a "monster," understood as that which is rejected by its creator. The human or monstrous destiny of a being depends not so much on how it was created, but on whether it was loved, recognized, and placed in a relationship of desire and filiation.

Keywords: Science | Desire | Filiation | Father