The Dead Father: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry

225 Pages·2008·3.104 MB·English

by  Lila J. Kalinich, Stuart W. Taylor

The Dead Father
This book constructs a much needed framework to allow psychoanalysts to
consider the difficulties of a generation without a solid anchor in the Father.
The Dead Father: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry provides a necessary addition to
decades of work on the role of the mother in development. The editors bring
together world renowned scholars to discuss current observations in their
fields, in terms of the Father’s changing but essential functions, both in
the lives of the individual and collective. Divided into four parts, chapters
focus on:
(cid:127) The Lost Father
(cid:127) The Father Embodied
(cid:127) The Father in Theory
(cid:127) Father Culture.
Exploring the role of the father in individual psychology, everyday inter-
personal and social experience and cultural phenomena writ large, this book
will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, as well as psychologists, social
workers and scholars in the humanities.
Lila J. Kalinich is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia
University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where she has
included Lacan and contemporary philosophy in her teaching for many
years. She is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons, and is in private practice.
Stuart W. Taylor is a member of the faculty of the Columbia University
Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and is Assistant Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons. He is on the faculty of the Department of English and Comparative
Literature at Columbia College, where he teaches Freud to undergraduates.
He is also in private practice.

The Dead Father
A psychoanalytic inquiry
Edited by Lila J. Kalinich and
Stuart W. Taylor
First published 2009
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The dead father : a psychoanalytic inquiry / edited by Lila J. Kalinich
and Stuart W. Taylor.
p. cm.
Proceedings of a conference held in Apr. 2006.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978–0–415–44994–6 (hardback) – ISBN: 978–0–415–
44995–3 (pbk.) 1. Father and child – Congresses. 2.
Psychoanalysis – Congresses. I. Kalinich, Lila J., 1944–
II. Taylor, Stuart W., 1959–
BF723.F35D43 2008
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2008014903
ISBN 0-203-88024-2 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN: 978–0–415–44994–6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978–0–415–44995–3 (pbk)
For Ramon, Jessie and David,
and Francesca and Giacomo
with love

Contents
Acknowledgements ix
List of contributors x
Introduction 1
LILA J. KALINICH
Prologue 9
STUART W. TAYLOR
PART I
The lost father 21
1 The construction of the lost father 23
ANDRÉ GREEN
2 Fatherhood revisited: the dead father, fraternal
pact and analytic filiation in the work of
André Green 47
FERNANDO URRIBARRI
PART II
The father embodied 59
Introduction 59
MARIA CRISTINA AGUIRRE
3 The death of the dead father? 65
MARILIA AISENSTEIN
viii Contents
4 A new love for the father 75
ERIC LAURENT
5 Unmastered remains: fathers in Freud and me 91
THOMAS W. LAQUEUR
PART III
The father in theory 103
Introduction 103
ARNOLD RICHARDS
6 The dead father figure and the symbolization process 111
CHRISTINE ANZIEU-PREMMEREUR
7 The dead father and the sacrifice of sexuality 121
ROSINE JOZEF PERELBERG
8 Constructing and deconstructing the conglomerate: thoughts
about the father in life, in death, and in theory 133
JAMES M. HERZOG
PART IV
Father culture 145
Introduction 145
JOHN P. MULLER
9 A little pedagogy, then and now 153
EDWARD W. TAYLER
10 The dead but living father, the living but dead father 163
VINCENT CRAPANZANO
11 A father is beaten to death 175
JULIA KRISTEVA
Epilogue 189
HELEN C. MEYERS
Index 195
Acknowledgements
With gratitude to those who helped this project along, in ways both large and
small: Graciela Abelin-Sas, Bonita D’Amil, Edith Cooper, Roberta Garruccio,
Robert Glick, Jonathan House, Joan Jackson, Lawrence Jacobsberg, David
Bowen Kalinich, Bonnie Kaufman, Edward Kenny, Gregorio Kohon, Andreas
Kraebber, Catherine Maheux, Judy Mars, Donald Meyers, Susan Rogers, John
Munder Ross, George Sagi, Jonah Schein, Paul Stepansky, Craig Tomlinson, Joel
Whitebook, James Williams, Francesca Zavolta. And abundant thanks to Kate
Hawes, Jane Harris, Sarah Gibson and Kate Moysen of Routledge, and Penelope
Allport, freelance copy-editor, for their patience and guidance.
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