%0 Journal Article %T Modernidad, ciudad y sujeto: Aproximaciones a partir del mito del padre primordial %A Le¨Žn Donoso %A Abelardo %J Atenea (Concepci¨Žn) %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-04622010000100008 %X the present article deals with three categories that emerge as a result of the deep social changes that have occurred since the consolidation of the modern western world: mo-dernity, city and subject. the analysis takes up the freudian myth of primary father and upholds the thesis that modernity signifies a form of death of the father embodied in the figure of the absolute monarch, initiating the concept of social ties understood as state. %K modernity %K primary father %K subject %K palimpsest. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-04622010000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en