The achievement of paternal function in the psychoanalytic process

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Perhaps the phantasy “a father is being beaten” is more important when the external father has not been sufficiently present to be symbolically murdered or beaten to death. The dream of beating the father becomes an achievement of the analysis, as an expression of the patient’s ambivalent feelings towards the father. the phantasy of ‘a father is being beaten’ may be considered part of the developmental task of any male individual

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