There are numerous stories told in the analytical psychotherapy space by daughters with absent fathers who relate experiences of the deprivation suffered without a father’s love and care. These daughters emoted the needs, longings and wishes for the presence of a good father. This common and necessary desire has sadly gone unmet through generations.
The central premise is the absence of the father is harmful not only due to absence but more to the presence of the absence, affecting a daughter in body, mind and soul. Additionally, absence is accentuated because it implies the space to be filled, a hope for other dynamics between daughters and fathers personally and culturally. This subject, although focused on daughters has application to sons as well.