The Absent Father Effect on Daughters

Father Desire, Father Wounds

De: Susan E. Schwartz

Narrado por: Ann Sprinkle

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.

Examining daughters both personally and collectively affected by the lack of a father, this book is highly relevant for those wanting to understand the complex dynamics of daughters and fathers to become their authentic selves.

©2021 Susan E. Schwartz (P)2025 Tantor Media

Very academic

If you’re looking for something warm and therapeutic, this isn’t the book. While very informative, this one is quite academic. More directed to mental health professionals than women seeking to work on themselves. It just wasn’t what I was looking for.

A Torture to Read

While I appreciate sophisticated vocabulary, simple thoughts are expressed in such an ornate manner, I found it impossible and a torture to read.

Gave a very palpable sense of the depth of feelings without a father’s presence of missing integration , lacking acceptance and the fundamental sense of attachment patters .
The insights were nuanced and the hopefulness was useful and inviting .. it was also confronting to hear narratives that triggered old feeling which were buried and gave a sense of relief at the same time as truths that were suppressed were acknowledged in a sense that I am not alone and transformation and self renewal is awaiting.