THE ABSENT FATHER EFFECT ON THE DAUGHTERS

THE ABSENT FATHER EFFECT ON THE DAUGHTERS

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The Absent Father Effect on Daughters by Susan E. Schwartz is a deeply insightful book that explores the psychological and emotional impact of father absence on women. Drawing from Jungian psychology, the book examines how a missing or emotionally distant father influences a daughter's self-esteem, relationships, and personal development. Through real-life case studies and expert analysis, Schwartz delves into themes of abandonment, identity, and healing, offering guidance for women seeking to understand and overcome the effects of an absent father. Thought-provoking and compassionate, this book provides valuable insights for anyone interested in psychology, self-discovery, and emotional healing.The Absent Father Effect on Daughters investigates the impact of absent – physically or emotionally – and inadequate fathers on the lives and psyches of their daughters through the perspective of Jungian analytical psychology.

This book tells the stories of daughters who describe the insecurity of self, the splintering and disintegration of the personality, and the silencing of voice. Issues of fathers and daughters reach to the intra-psychic depths and archetypal roots, to issues of self and culture, both personal and collective.

Susan E. Schwartz illustrates the maladies and disappointments of daughters who lack a father figure and incorporates clinical examples describing how daughters can break out of idealizations, betrayals, abandonments and losses to move towards repair and renewal.

The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, expanding and elucidating Jungian concepts through dreams, personal stories, fairy tales and the poetry of Sylvia Plath, along with psychoanalytic theory, including Andre Green’s ‘dead father effect’ and Julia Kristeva’s theories on women and the body as abject.