The Telemachus Complex: Parents and Children after the Decline of the FatherAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Friday 6 September 2019
You may also like ...
by
Paperback
05 Mar 2020
>>
€15.20
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
03 Jul 2020
>>
€17.54
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
06 Sep 2019
>>
€17.54
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
26 Apr 2019
>>
€18.71
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Description
Fatherhood today is in crisis. Fathers have gone missing, or have become their children's playmates, and the symbolic authority of the father has lost its power. What remains of the father today in the wake of this decline, and what should the relation between children and parents now be? In addressing these questions, Massimo Recalcati draws inspiration from the story of Telemachus in Homer's Odyssey. The Telemachus complex is the reverse of the Oedipus complex. Recalcati argues that children are possessed not just with a desire to annihilate their father, as their key rival in the contest to win the mother's love, but also with a longing for a father-figure, as someone who brings meaning, structure and order to their lives and who imbues them with a sense of the future. This fresh and insightful account of the changing relations between parents and children in the era of the decline of the father will be of great interest to a wide general readership.
Reviews