The Father: Historical, Psychological, and Cultural PerspectivesPsychology Press, 2001 - 314 pages Luigi Zoja views the origin and evolution of the father from a Jungian perspective. He argues that the father's role in bringing up children is a social construction that has been subject to change throughout history - and looks at the consequences of this, along with the crisis facing fatherhood today. The Father will be welcomed by people from a wide variety of disciplines, including practitioners and students of psychology, sociology and anthropology, and by the educated general reader. |
Contents
The mammals the animals retreat from fatherhood | 19 |
The sexuality of the great apes | 25 |
The prehistoric horizon of the father | 29 |
The paternal revolution | 34 |
Lucy grows | 46 |
Myth and the classical age | 59 |
Patriarchy and matriarchy | 61 |
The historic horizon of the father | 73 |
The disenchantment of war | 184 |
The reversal of the public father | 197 |
The voyage of the Joads | 209 |
The father today | 223 |
The rarefaction of the father | 225 |
The abdication of the father in flight toward the past | 238 |
The abdication of the father in flight toward the future | 245 |
The disappearance of elevation | 260 |
The mythic origins of the father | 78 |
Hector | 83 |
Ulysses | 98 |
The myth of the father as the sole progenitor | 115 |
Aeneas | 129 |
Towards modern times and decadence | 157 |
From the Roman father to the Son to the French Revolution | 159 |
From the French Revolution to the Industrial Revolution | 176 |
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