Kristeva's Imaginary Father and the Crisis in the Paternal Function

diacritics ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 21 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Oliver ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
Leon S. Roudiez ◽  
Leon Roudiez
Keyword(s):  
Paternal Function ◽  
Imaginary Father

Deconstructing the paternal function—paternal function or third-party function?*

2018 ◽  
pp. 149-159
Author(s):  
Leticia Glocer Fiorini
Keyword(s):  
Third Party ◽  
Paternal Function

‘Hopelessly devoted to you’: An examination of Winnicott’s concept of primary maternal preoccupation in the identity and practice of male group analysts

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen McBride
Keyword(s):  
Group Analysis ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Male Group ◽  
Primary Maternal Preoccupation ◽  
Interview Format ◽  
Paternal Function ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The rationale for this study is to explore whether or not the Winnicottian concept of primary maternal preoccupation fits into the identities and features in what male group analysts reflect on and resonate with upon ‘giving birth to’ and conducting a group. A qualitative, individual case-study approach was employed to attempt to discover and understand how male group analysts make sense of Winnicott’s fundamental concept. Wondering and thinking about how a male group analyst ‘holds’ both the maternal and paternal function in a group is also being thought about to ascertain the impact of these features on clinical practice. Exploring the concept of primary maternal preoccupation lends towards a strong focus on the relationship between mother and baby, mirrored in and seen as a metaphor for the relationship between the group analyst and the group members. Doron argues that in disclosing her depth of feeling towards the changing group membership in the group she was conducting, she identified strongly with the state of primary maternal preoccupation. This study will explore the range of feelings associated with the primary maternal preoccupation male group analysts associate with. Three qualified group analysts with five years’ minimum post-qualification experience, with whom there were no boundary issues, were interviewed in a semi-structured interview format to ascertain and develop this understanding. A phenomenological research method was chosen to analyse the collated data from the three individual interviews. Following completion of the three interviews, the participants’ texts were analysed resulting in five overall themes being developed. Potential wider scopes and application of the question, potential clinical implications of the topic under discussion and the potential for developing a theoretical discussion in group analysis on what might be coined ‘paternal preoccupation’ were illuminated and discussed.

Paternal Function and Thirdness in Psychoanalysis and Legend: Has the Future Been Foretold?

2013 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 557-585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosine Jozef Perelberg
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Paternal Function

The Paternal Function in Anorexia Nervosa

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-32
Author(s):  
Tom Wooldridge
Keyword(s):  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Phenomenological Experience ◽  
Paternal Function

The role of the father, both flesh-and-blood and symbolic, is explored in a subset of families of patients with anorexia nervosa. In these families the mother’s narcissistic investment in her child makes separation-individuation difficult. A factor potentially influencing whether the child goes on to develop anorexia nervosa is the strength of the paternal function, which optimally helps the child learn how to appropriately deploy his aggression in the service of separation-individuation and as a means of developing “the experience of agency”: the phenomenological experience of oneself as having an intentional impact. The role of the paternal function in developing the experience of agency is illuminated by the metaphor of rough-and-tumble play, which encapsulates the kind of experience with early objects that facilitates or forecloses the child’s capacity for experiencing agency. In the families of these patients, the father is frequently described as passive or absent and the paternal function as compromised, which arguably leads the anorexic-to-be to relegate his experience of agency to his body, which he subjugates through omnipotent control.

scholarly journals Wild Pear Trees, Patrimonial Legacies: Father-Son Relationship in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's The Wild Pear Tree

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-149
Author(s):  
Coşkun Liktor
Keyword(s):  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Pear Tree ◽  
Paternal Function ◽  
Pear Trees

This article analyzes the father-son relationship in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film The Wild Pear Tree (2018), which tells the story of a son who desires a life as unlike his father’s narrow, provincial life as possible, only to find himself following in his father’s footsteps almost against his will. Drawing upon Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, this article examines the film as an oedipal drama that portrays the predicament of a son who grapples with an ineffectual, humiliated father that fails to embody the paternal function. It undertakes to show how the father-son conflict eventually culminates in the father’s transformation from an object of contempt into an identificatory ideal for his son, who becomes heir to a legacy of disillusionment and thwarted hopes.

scholarly journals The Paternal Function in Jang Jung-Il's Plays based on Lacanian Subject

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (43) ◽  
pp. 87-118
Author(s):  
김숙현
Keyword(s):  
Paternal Function
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