Psychoanalysis, fatherhood, and the modern family / Liliane Weissberg, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weissberg, Liliane, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers--Psychology.

Fathers.

Fatherhood--Psychological aspects.

Fatherhood.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

Summary:

To what extent are the concepts of fatherhood and family, as proposed by Sigmund Freud, still valid? Psychoanalysis, Fatherhood, and the Modern Family traces the development of Freuds theory of the Oedipus complex and discusses his ideas in the context of recent psychoanalytic work, new sociological data, and theoretical explorations on gender and diversity. Contributors include representatives from many academic disciplines, as well as practicing psychoanalysts who reflect on their experience with patients. Their exciting essays break new ground in defining who a father is and what a father may be.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Psychoanalysis, Fatherhood, and the Work of Mourning

Part I Freud Discovers Oedipus

2. The Road to Thebes: Freud and French Retrospective Medicine

3. The Dawn of the Oedipus Complex: A Tale of Two Letters

Part II The Oedipus Complex After Freud

4. Freud's Oedipal Myth and Lacan's Critique

5. Deleuze-Guattari and the End of Oedipus

6. The Nuclear Family and Its Discontents: Freud, Jung, and Szondi and the Persistence of the Dynasty

Part III Private and Public Fathers

7. Black Fathers, Oedipal Issues, and Modernity

8. Does a Father Need to be a Man?

9. Blindness and Repair in Institutional Psychoanalysis: A Brief History

10. A Fatherless Nation: Alexander Mitscherlich Analyzes Post-War Germany

Part IV Media Matters

11. The Planetary Father Function

12. What is Called Father? (A Fissure in Familialism).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Psychoanalysis, fatherhood, and the modern family.

ISBN:

3030821234

9783030821234

OCLC:

1257890231

Publisher Number:

99988936280