The cultural domain imposes ties which hamper individual possibilities of freedom. These ties are not limited only to the exteriority of an environment which restricts, from the outside, inner individual desires. Foundational and potentially alienating modalities of the cultural domain in the individual psyche are explored through early relations and in group psychology where, in a state of de-subjectivation, the individual expresses his most rudimentary drive impulses. They are also examined in collective psychic formations such as the narcissistic contract and unconscious alliances. A central character in the analysis of Nora clearly evidences the condensation of different lines of force which, in the very essence of the psyche, work to hamper freedom: the oedipal prohibition, the quest for a primary sense of omnipotence, and cultural affiliations.