Theaters of Psyche: Absent father

The absent father effect is a love story, but an unrequited one. Harm is done due to the presence of his absence, affecting a daughter—and a father–in body, mind, and soul. The effect of being trapped in a complex of absence and lack saps energy. The father figure is an essential aspect of the psyche and significant for the daughter’s psychological and physical life expressed personally and culturally. His absence leads to question how a father dreams of his daughter. What does he wish for her? When absent, he has not realized her needs for good attachment, how he can damage and limit growth. The psyche affected by the absent father include the negative father complex, puella archetype and examining the outdated concept of the animus. The focus is on the bleaker side of daughters and fathers’ relationship in order to shed light on the lack, symptoms and problems, as well as the repair and hope. The topic applies to everyone as the aspects of fathers and daughters are internal figures, appearing in dreams and all relationships, including the therapeutic.