The Dead Father: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry

by Kalinich; Lila J.

• ISBN13: 9780415449946
• ISBN10: 0415449944
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What is the significance of the Father in psychoanalysis today? This book constructs a much needed framework to allow psychoanalysts to consider the difficulties of a generation without a solid anchor in the Father. The Dead Father: A Psychoanalytic Inquiryprovides a necessary addition to decades of work on the role of the mother in development. The editors bring together world renowned scholars to discuss current observations in their fields, in terms of the Father's changing but essential functions, both in the lives of the individual and collective. Divided into four parts, chapters focus on: The Lost Father The Father Embodied The Father in Theory Father Culture. Exploring the role of the father in individual psychology, everyday interpersonal and social experience and cultural phenomena writ large, this book will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, as well as psychologists, social workers and scholars in the humanities.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of contributors	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Prologue	p. 9
The lost father	p. 21
The construction of the lost father	p. 23
Fatherhood revisited: the dead father, fraternal pact and analytic filiation in the work of Andre Green	p. 47
The father embodied	p. 59
Introduction	p. 59
The death of the dead father?	p. 65
A new love for the father	p. 75
Unmastered remains: fathers in Freud and me	p. 91
The father in theory	p. 103
Introduction	p. 103
The dead father figure and the symbolization process	p. 111
The dead father and the sacrifice of sexuality	p. 121
Constructing and deconstructing the conglomerate: thoughts about the father in life, in death, and in theory	p. 133
Father culture	p. 145
Introduction	p. 145
A little pedagogy, then and now	p. 153
The dead but living father, the living but dead father	p. 163
A father is beaten to death	p. 175
Epilogue	p. 189
Index	p. 195
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