Feminine identity is not only connected with the mother and with the maternal grandmother. One interesting and not infrequent element feminine identity may take is an identification with the mother of the girl's father. The daughter seems to be the father's primary and oedipal love object, but this love is not only the love the father as a little boy had for his mother, but the primary love that he received from her. The father makes a narcissistic demand on his daughter to love him in the fashion in which his mother loved him as an infant. The father, faced with the recognition of his own aging and limitations, and the approach of death, expects that his daughter will restore to him the status of the marvelous child, that she will fill him with her own narcissistic cathexis, so that he can avoid confronting his own limits and the irreversible arrow of time. The author illustrates this developmental configuration with a personal example and with references to Anna Freud's relation to her father, as well as other examples in the lives of Ferenczi, Barthes, and Leonardo da Vinci.