Recently added articles from Psychoanalytic Inquiry:
PROLOGUE
Jan 01, 2008; Kieffer, Christine C ... The impact of fathers on daughters' childhood histories and the influence of daughters on adult male development are topics that have been relatively undertheorized in psychoanalytic developmental and clinical literature. This is particularly surprising, given that the first cases that formed ...
Freud, Anna, and the Problem of Female Sexuality
Jan 01, 2008; Cohler, Bertram J; Galatzer-Levy, Robert M ... Freud has been criticized for his failure to understand and write about femininity in ways that reflect the place of women in society. Indeed, although from the outset he worked with highly intelligent, articulate women analysands, his discussion of female sexuality was convoluted and did not ...
On Famous Fathers and Their Youngest Daughters
Jan 01, 2008; Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth ... This article begins with a reading of Freud's "The Theme of Three Caskets," with its portrait of a father's relation to his daughter, viewed as a successor to his mother and then his wife. Freud pays particular attention to a father, King Lear, with three daughters, the youngest of whom loves ...
"Fathers" and "Daughters"
Jan 01, 2008; Harris, Adrienne ... This article begins questioning, and yet also making use of, the concept of the father, examining the theoretical space of fathers and fathering in psychoanalytic theory in the light of contemporary gender theory. Using memoir and clinical vignettes, the essay examines the experience of the ...
Fathers and the Bodily Care of Their Infant Daughters
Jan 01, 2008; Balsam, Rosemary H ... This article adds to information on the internal complexity of gender portraits, as well as a psychoanalytic subjective aspect to the small literature on hands-on infant caretaking by fathers. The clinical material, based on the treatment of three fathers of infant daughters, affirms others' ...
From Selfobjects to Mutual Recognition: Towards Optimal Responsiveness in Father and Daughter Relationships
Jan 01, 2008; Kieffer, Christine C ... This article examines the nature of the father and daughter relationship, studying its impact on both parties. The author first summarizes the relatively sparse psychoanalytic literature on this topic, and offers a detailed analysis of newer models of development that might broaden our ...
From Fathering Daughters to Doddering Father
Jan 01, 2008; Altman, Neil ... In this article, I consider some of the dilemmas and challenges of a male therapist working with female adolescents, in counterpoint to those facing the father of adolescent daughters. There is a conventional wisdom that female adolescents need female therapists; I argue that this kind of ...
Fathers and Daughters: A Discussion
Jan 01, 2008; Lichtenberg, Joseph D ... In my discussion, I consider each article's presentation of significant features of the relationships of fathers and daughters. I will emphasize the changes that have occurred in psychoanalytic theories of father-daughter intersubjectives as indicated by the authors and from my own ...