...This chapter suggests that the case history Wolf Man not only provides Freud's most sustained articulation of the concept of the primal scene in psychoanalysis, but also that the case itself constitutes something of a primal scene...

...-centered ideologies or other imaginary appurtenances to keep the domestic system of reproduction going. But male cults have to resort to intergenerational myths, sending factitious lines of filiation back into the past, making their ancestors their children. Bryan Wolf goes on to suggest that the efforts...

..., against the latterday reduction of the term’s meaning to content (the parental scene), that Freud continued to use it in the Wolf Man case in the original sense of a prototype scene functioning in the temporal structure of aftrewardsness. The associated term ‘primal fantasies’ is also examined in the 1915...

... the medieval German notion of the wargus, the werewolf or outlaw, and the identification of “the Jew” as wolf. In particular, it attends to the different ways H. Leivick, in his Yiddish narrative poem “Der Volf” (1920), and Curt Siodmak, in his script(s) for The Wolf Man (1941...