“I am his. Even in his Absence ... ”

Abstract

ABSTRACT The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds explores, in depth, the destructive impact of paternal absence on women. Each chapter combines deep familiarity with psychoanalytic and Jungian theory, alongside telling amplifications from fairytales, mythology, biblical and literary sources, with detailed and sensitive clinical illustrations. Susan E. Schwartz presents focused discussion on central topics, such as narcissism, archetypal father, as-if personality, puella, and more. Her discussion of the life and poetry of Sylvia Plath is particularly memorable. The book is intelligent, passionate, insightful, and likely to become a Jungian classic.