Speaker
Susan SchwartzSusan E. Schwartz, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist, presented workshops and lectures in numerous countries. Susan has published articles in several journals and contributed chapters to books on Jung’s analytical psychology. Her book, published by Routledge in 2020, is entitled: The Absent Father Effect on Daughters, Father Desire, Father Wounds.
Organiser
New York Association for Analytical Psychology
Website
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The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds
The absent father effect is a love story, but an unrequited one. Harm is done due to the presence of absence, affecting a daughter—and the father--in body, mind, and soul. The father is an essential aspect of the psyche and significant for the daughter’s psychological and physical life as it is expressed personally and culturally. This also includes males who have absent father issues as well.
Aspects of the psyche, according to Jungian psychology, affected by the absent father include the negative father complex, puella archetype and updating the concept of the animus. The identification with or denial of the absent father effect has serious ramifications for development. The presentation focuses on the bleaker side of daughters and fathers’ relationships, taking seriously the ramifications from the lack as well as discovering the repair and hope.
Learning Objectives:
The participants will be able to:
1. Describe how the daughter carries the shadow of the father
2. Explain why the father is so absent in psychological theory
3. Describe how therapists work with the father projection in the transference and countertransference
4. Describe how the father absence can become filled