This chapter focuses on the quest for immortality and the origin of mankind. Drawing on Stiegler's commentary on the myth of Prometheus and Epimetheus, I discuss his convergence with Lacan in terms of interpretation (hermeneia) and the traversal of fantasies and scientific myths. In this chapter I also discuss an "omission'. Despite his philosophical acumen, Stiegler "forgets' to read Freud's fort/da scene as an early conjunction of hand, tool, death, and language. The scene, I argue, could be the symbolic-psychic antecedent of aporia in the age of technics.