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In the early years of psychoanalysis, the role of the father function in psychic structuring was emphasized as a third factor. Especially with Freud's Totem and Taboo, it is seen that the symbolic father takes place as a founding figure in the structuring of civilized society, the prohibition of incest and the establishment of the Law. It is stated that this phylogenetic model of the father function recurs in the history of each individual and that the primary identification with the primitive father forms the core of the ego ideal. In the following years, the theoretical focus shifting to the explanation of early psychopathologies and the dual fusional-symbiotic pattern of the analytic environment led to an increase in mother-centered orientations in theory and an increase in studies focusing on the mother-infant dyad in practice. In recent years, the lack of paternal functioning in early psychopathologies has become more prominent and the importance of paternal functioning, which was excluded from the pre-oedipal schema, has come to the fore again. The father function is a psychic formation as a distinctive third that is present in the psyche of the parents and can be transmitted unconsciously, regardless of the presence of the actual father. It has a symbolic function as a father principle. This paper focuses on the neglected importance of the paternal function in the human psyche, both in psychoanalytic theory and practice, and discusses its role in both psychic structuring and psychoanalytic practice.