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Legends and fairy tales contain myriad remnants of the bygone primitive era. Moreover, these narratives, like dreams, are collective and universal due to the unconscious nature of the material they comprehended. From this point of view, many of the stories known about fathers and sons are frequently covered in psychoanalytic literature and contribute significantly to the literature on the ambivalent nature of the father-son relationship. The story of the Binding of Isaac is one of the three major monotheistic religions’ most common narratives in this framework; it is also a prominent religious holiday (Eid al-Adha) throughout which Muslims sacrifice animals. In this article, the foundation myth in Totem and Taboo and the sacrifice scene of Abraham and Isaac are discussed, and the father-son relationship, the process of civilization, filicide desires, and animal sacrifice are postulated on the concept of perversion.