This article begins with a reading of Freud's “The Theme of Three Caskets,” with its portrait of a father's relation to his daughter, viewed as a successor to his mother and then his wife. Freud pays particular attention to a father, King Lear, with three daughters, the youngest of whom loves him most intensely, as Freud's own youngest daughter did. To explore the father's relation to his youngest of three daughters from the daughter's point of view, this article offers four clinical vignettes.