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Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy
2018. Vol. 26, no. 1, 129–145
doi:10.17759/cpp.2018260109
ISSN: 2075-3470 / 2311-9446 (online)

Hypostases and Transformarions of the Concept of the Father in Psychoanalysis

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M.A. Gulina

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Abstract

The paper explores various psychoanalytic views on the role of the father in psychic life, in the development of an individual and society. The idea of the sacrifice of sexuality as the inevitable and tragic element of the oedipal structure is stressed. Mother’s and father’s functions in a child’s development are outlined. The differences in the understanding of the notion of the father by Freud, Lacan, Green, Mahler, Klein, Britton and others are discussed. The concept of the Third in contemporary psychoanalysis is outlined, theories of Thirdness by Benjamin and Ogden are compared.

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Keywords: dead father, symbolical father, idealized (narcissistic) father, murdered father, primordial father, imaginary father, real father, father’s functions, shared Third, energetic Third

Journal rubric: Theory and Methodology

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/cpp.2018260109

For citation: Gulina M.A. Hypostases and Transformarions of the Concept of the Father in Psychoanalysis. Konsul'tativnaya psikhologiya i psikhoterapiya = Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy, 2018. Vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 129–145. DOI: 10.17759/cpp.2018260109. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Marina A. Gulina, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Department of Methodology of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Professor, CITY University, London, United Kingdom, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: marinagulina@mail.ru

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