THE FATHER,THE FATHER FUNCTION,THE FATHER PRINCIPLE: SOME CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYTIC DEVELOPMENTS |
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| Authors: | CLÁUDIO LAKS EIZIRIK |
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| Institution: | Training and Supervising Analyst of the Porto Alegre Psychoanalytic Society and a Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. |
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| Abstract: | The author discusses Freud's thinking on the role of the father, as well as that of later French theoreticians. To illustrate his remarks, he draws on the poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1912–1987), a Brazilian poet whose work often dealt with themes of the father, the family, and his own paternal relationship. The author also discusses the psychic formation of the father principle and how this may be evident in the clinical analytic setting, even when the analyst's approach privileges field theory, intersubjectivity, or other concepts emphasizing the relationship between analyst and patient. |
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| Keywords: | Father father principle Freud Carlos Drummond de Andrade poetry oedipal phase mythology parricide father– son relationship analytic relationship psychic structure drives analytic interaction |
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