The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds

ISBN-13: 9780367360818 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 176 str.

Susan E. Schwartz

Opis

This book investigates the impact of absent and inadequate fathers on the lives and psyches of their daughters through the perspective of Jungian analytical psychology. It tells the stories of daughters who describe the insecurity of self, the splintering and disintegration of the personality, and the silencing of voice.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Credits  Introduction  1. The Parallax  2. Loss and Longing  3. Father Desire, Father Wounds  4. Mirroring in the Dead Father Effect  5. Bad Dad – Negative Father Complex  6. Father Archetypal Dynamics, Symbols and Images  7. Who Is She Really? The ‘As-If’ Personality  8. The Dialogue of Therapy  9. If He Loves Her, Where Is He?  10. Idealisation of Father – A Tomb of Illusion  11. Do You Want to be ‘Daddy’s Girl’?  12. Behind the Mask and the Glitter – A Narcissistic Response  13. The Body in Shadow  14. Sylvia Plath’s ‘Daddy’  15. Filling the Absence  Index

O autorze

Susan E. Schwartz is a Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist in Arizona, USA. As a member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology she has taught and presented at conferences and workshops in the United States and worldwide. She has several articles and book chapters on these aspects of Jungian psychology. Her website is www.susanschwartzphd.com.