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Father Absence and the developement of the male self through Freud and Chodorow's theories.
Title: Father Absence and the developement of the male self through Freud and Chodorow's theories.
Category: Social Sciences / Psychology
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Father Absence and the developement of the male self through Freud and Chodorow's theories.
In Freud's psychoanalytical analysis of the self, as well as Nancy Chodorow's theory of object-relations, the father plays a strong role in the development of male identity. The Oedipus theory explains that the need of a father is to create enough anxiety in a boy to help the boy to separate from the mother and identify with the father. The boy's fear of the father in accordance with his pre-Oedipal love interest in the mother …showed first 75 words of 1974 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1974 total…identification of the self as a male, the absence can be detrimental to the development of a boy and create many stigmas that will remain with the boy for life.
Works Cited:
Chodorow, Nancy. The Reproduction of Mothering. California: University of California Press, 1978
Shill, Merton. "TAT Measures of Gender Identity (Castration Anxiety)." University of Michigan Journal of Personal Assessment 42.5 (1981) : 136-146
Minsky, Rosalin. "Beyond Nurture: Finding the Words for Male Identity" Journal of Psychoanalytic Studies Vol. 2 No. 3 (2000)
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