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Record Nr.

UNINA9910523779503321

Titolo

Psychoanalysis, Fatherhood, and the Modern Family / / edited by Liliane Weissberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030821241

3030821242

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 pages)

Disciplina

306.8742

306.8742019

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Social sciences - Philosophy

Systemic therapy (Family therapy)

Social Philosophy

Systems or Family Therapy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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).

Sommario/riassunto

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 Freud's 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.