iki karanlık arasında kahraman: doğum travmasını atlatmanın yolları

In psychoanalysis, the father is not only a physical but also a symbolic phenomenon. The father's position is often described as an activity that will carry the subject out of the psychic economy mostly created by the mother. For many analysts, moving away from the mother is perceived at an unconscious level, as a sign of health. The father intervenes between the mother and the child and carries him into the symbolic world. There it enables him to encounter a reality beyond the pleasure principle. Without this encounter with the father, the individual's psychic organization becomes unhealthy. Especially Otto Rank argues that this encounter with the father should continue throughout life with the concept of “birth trauma”. The father's loss of place in the spiritual economy causes a regression again. Similarly, Lacan marks this symbolic role with the concept of “Name-of-the Father”. The father's name intervenes between the mother's juissance and the child, ensuring that the child is placed in the right place in the economy of desire. In a way, the father functions as a symbolic wall that is affirmed and protects the subject against the danger of psychosis. For this reason, the concept of father in psychoanalysis should not be directly considered a part of a masculine imagination, even though it has implications in this direction. The father should be considered more as a founding agent of psychoanalytical dynamics and dialectics.