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Original Articles

May I call you father?

Summaries in German and Spanish

Pages 197-205 | Published online: 12 May 2010
 

Abstract

The paper discusses what the author calls “The seduction by the father”. It would occur when, in the Oedipus complex, the father reverses his role: instead of being the one who castrates, he seduces. Seduction here is understood in the sense that he does not act as the one who imposes limits to the child. Consequently the child can not project his hostile impulses onto the father.

Based on clinical data, the Author says that, in the male child, the seduction by the father hampers the transformation of the two Oedipal attitudes towards the father into identifications. The consequences of this fact upon the construction of the “nostalgia of the father's protection” are discussed, so as the transformation of this father into the symbolic father.

Ceccarelli PR. “Darf ich Dich Vater nennen”?

Die Arbeit diskutiert, was der Author “Die Verführung durch den Vater” nennt. Dies würde dann geschehen – im Ödipuskomplex -- wenn der Vater seine Rolle umkehrt: anstatt derjenige zu sein der kastriert, verleitet er. Verführung wird hier in dem Sinne verstanden als er nicht als derjenige handelt, der dem Kind Grenzen auferlegt. Folglich kann das Kind seine feindlichen Impulse nicht auf den Vater projizieren. Auf klinischen Daten basierend sagt der Autor, daß -- beim männlichen Kind -- die Verführung durch den Vater die Transformation der zwei ödipalen Haltungen gegenüber dem Vater in Identifikationen behindert. Die Konsequenzen dieser Tatsache für die Konstruktion der “Nostalgie nach Vaters Schutz” werden diskutiert, ebenso wie die Transformation dieses Vaters in den symbolischen Vater.

Ceccarelli PR. ¿Puedo llamarte padre?

Este trabajo discute lo que el autor llama “la seducción del padre”. Lo que ocurriría cuando, en el complejo de Edipo, el padre invierte su papel: en lugar de ser el que castra, el padre seduce. Seducción que es entendida en el sentido de que no es él quien impone limites al niño. Por consiguiente el niño no puede proyectar sus impulsos hostiles sobre el padre. Basándose en datos clínicos, el autor sostiene, que en el niño varón, la seducción del padre impide la transformación de las dos actitudes edipicas hacia el padre en identificaciones. Las consecuencias de este hecho son discutidas y su repercusión en la construcción de la “nostalgia de la protección del padre” así como la trasformación de este padre en el padre simbólico.

To Joyce McDougall, brilliant psychoanalytic writer and researcher into the many faces of Eros, with gratitude for her stimulating ideas and friendship over many years.

Notes

One of the most successful attempts to understand the complex process of “becoming a man” was proposed by Robert Stoller.

Maybe Freud has not followed this vein of research because of the way he dealt with homosexuality throughout his work. Such aspects are particularly clear in the Freud/Jung correspondence.

In a long footnote, added in 1915 to the “Three essays”, Freud presented the most comprehensive synthesis of his scientific thought – but also a humanistic one – about homosexuality.

The word “illusion” is employed here in the same sense used by Freud. (Citation8). In this very text, Freud refers to the use of drug as a support to human helplessness.

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