title: Psychic changes in the paternal image.
abstract: My main objective in this article is to show the changes which take place in the inner world of a young patient after his father's suicide, and the identifications he goes through. I hope the clinical material presented succeeds in doing so. We can also see the solid primary identifications which made it possible for this patient to get better and achieve a cure. It was not my aim to embark on a theoretical discussion of primary and secondary identification, an extremely complex subject in the writings of Freud.
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authors: Rosenfeld
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D009813:Oedipus Complex; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D010553:Personality Development; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology