title: The father, the father function, the father principle: some contemporary psychoanalytic developments.
abstract: The author discusses Freud's thinking on the role of the father, as well as that of later French theoreticians. To illustrate his remarks, he draws on the poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1912-1987), a Brazilian poet whose work often dealt with themes of the father, the family, and his own paternal relationship. The author also discusses the psychic formation of the father principle and how this may be evident in the clinical analytic setting, even when the analyst's approach privileges field theory, intersubjectivity, or other concepts emphasizing the relationship between analyst and patient.
authors: Training and Supervising Analyst of the Porto Alegre Psychoanalytic Society and a Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
authors: Cláudio Laks
authors: CL
authors: Eizirik
mesh_terms: D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005220:Fathers; D006801:Humans; D009813:Oedipus Complex; D011037:Poetry as Topic; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012380:Role; D014167:Transference, Psychology
keywords: Carlos Drummond de Andrade; Father; Freud; analytic interaction; analytic relationship; drives; father principle; father-son relationship; mythology; oedipal phase; parricide; poetry; psychic structure