Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons: Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2023
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 260
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 97295
- ISBN 13 : 9781800132382
- ISBN 10 : 1800132387
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
About the author
Introduction
PART I
Fleshing out fathers and sons in familial contexts
1. Finding a father: Repetition, difference, and fantasy in Finding Nemo
2. It is still hot: Wild things across centuries of childhood
3. The Giving Tree and spaceship dreams: Terrestrial embodiment and ethics of the outside
PART II
Sons and flight lessons
4. Icarus as falling forever: Unearthing the maternal in father hunger and endeavor excitement
5. Coercive elements and the threat of child sacrifice: The Lego Movie
6. On hunger and freedom: Huck Finn’s Pharmakon
7. Stealing a bad feed in the night kitchen
8. Peter Pan dances with Frankenstein: Wise babies facing/not facing challenges of integration
PART III
Fathers and homecomings
9. Abraham’s and Isaac’s fear and silence
10. Ulysses beached: Absence and faith in transformations
11. Father to the good-enough man: Vulnerability in The Trumpet of the Swan
Further thoughts
References
Index