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

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...

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Other Authors: Weissberg, Liliane (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Psychoanalysis, fatherhood, and the work of mourning
  • Part I: Freud discovers Oedipus
  • The road to Thebes: Freud and French retrospective medicine
  • 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
  • Deleuze-Guattari and the end of Oedipus
  • The nuclear family and its discontents: Freud, Jung, and Szondi and the persistence of the dynasty
  • Part III: Private and public fathers
  • Black fathers, Oedipal issues, and modernity
  • Does a father need to be a man?
  • Blindness and repair in institutional psychoanalysis: a brief history
  • A fatherless nation: Alexander Mitscherlich analyzes Post-War Germany
  • Part IV: Media matters
  • The planetary father function
  • What is called father? (a fissure in familialism).