Winner of the Internationl Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS) Book Award for Best Clinical Book 2021
The Absent Father Effect on Daughters investigates the impact of absent – physically or emotionally – and inadequate fathers on the lives and psyches of their daughters through the perspective of Jungian analytical psychology. This book tells the stories of daughters who describe the insecurity of self, the splintering and disintegration of the personality, and the silencing of voice.
Issues of fathers and daughters reach to the intra-psychic depths and archetypal roots, to issues of self and culture, both personal and collective. Susan E. Schwartz illustrates the maladies and disappointments of daughters who lack a father figure and incorporates clinical examples describing how daughters can break out of idealizations, betrayals, abandonments and losses to move towards repair and renewal. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, expanding and elucidating Jungian concepts through dreams, personal stories, fairy tales and the poetry of Sylvia Plath, along with psychoanalytic theory, including Andre Green’s ‘dead father effect’ and Julia Kristeva’s theories on women and the body as abject.
Product details
Publisher : Routledge; 1st edition (Nov. 30 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 176 pages
ISBN-10 : 0367360853
ISBN-13 : 978-0367360856
Item weight : 272 g
Dimensions : 15.6 x 1.12 x 23.4 cm
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