Citation

Eizirik CL. Psychoanal. Q. 2015; 84(2): 335-350.

Affiliation

Training and Supervising Analyst of the Porto Alegre Psychoanalytic Society and a Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1002/psaq.12003

PMID

25876537

Abstract

The author discusses Freud's thinking on the role of the father, as well as that of later French theoreticians. To illustrate his remarks, he draws on the poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1912-1987), a Brazilian poet whose work often dealt with themes of the father, the family, and his own paternal relationship. The author also discusses the psychic formation of the father principle and how this may be evident in the clinical analytic setting, even when the analyst's approach privileges field theory, intersubjectivity, or other concepts emphasizing the relationship between analyst and patient.

Language: en