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Abstract
Did Freud refuse to have his sons ritually circumcised? Did Emma Eckstein endure a circumcision when she was a girl? The author discusses these two controversial issues and suggests how they can help to rethink the origins of psychoanalysis. Erasing Emma Eckstein's circumcision as a traumatic life event, Freud uprooted the birth of psychoanalysis from the ground of history, jeopardizing the possibility of Freud's biographers and scholars of providing a consistent account of his early discoveries. Yet, despite all distortions, it is still possible to restore significant connections between key historical events, from which an intrinsic legitimacy of psychoanalysis emerges, jointly with a different narration.