Absent Fathers, Yearning Sons: A Jungian Analysis of the Father-Son Dynamic

Author(s) : Susan E. Schwartz

Absent Fathers, Yearning Sons: A Jungian Analysis of the Father-Son Dynamic

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2026
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 204
  • Category :
    Parenting
  • Category 2 :
    Jung and Analytical Psychology
  • Catalogue No : 98635
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032974972
  • ISBN 10 : 1032974974

Table of Contents


1. Where have the fathers been?
2. Father’s Shadow
3. Body disturbed
4. Dedalus and Icarus: Father envy
5. Projections, losses and gains
6. The melancholia of nigredo
7. Father dreams
8. The culture of father
9. Father transference in analytical and therapeutic treatment
10. The complex relationship between the archetypes of senex and puer
11. Kafka and father alienation
12. Transgenerational betrayal
13. The Three Languages fairy tale
14. Negation and the negative: André Green
15. Integrating the range: Feminine/anima/masculine/animus
16. The ability to hope and imagine

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