PEP | Article - The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (An Annual) 7, 1952: Margaret L. Meiss. 'The Oedipal Problem of a Fatherless Child', pp. 216–229.

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Abstract

A three-year-old boy lost his father and at five started analysis because of insomnia and the fear that his mother would die. Analysis showed the significance of the absence of the father in respect to the development of reality-sense in dealing with imaginary fears, the phantasy of reunion of the dead parents, and the resolution of the neurosis in the transference analysis.