Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons: Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities

by Louis Rothschild

Following Freud's rather cold conception of fathers and a relative neglect of their role in psychoanalytic theory is a challenge to continue more recent efforts to develop a psychoanalytically affirmative portrait of fatherhood. Here, fathers are attuned to relational mutuality and intimacy as a source of flourishing. Rapprochement is understood as a sub-phase of child development marked by a dramatic expression of conflict such as, "Hear me, see...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800132387
• ISBN13: 9781800132382
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Karnac Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.