Modernidad, ciudad y sujeto: Aproximaciones a partir del mito del padre primordial

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.