Psychoanalysis, Fatherhood, and the Modern Family

lt;b>Liliane Weissberg is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Science at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Among her recent book publications are Münzen, Hände, Noten, Finger: Berliner Hofjuden und die Erfindung einer deutschen Musikkultur (2018), Nachträglich, grundlegend: Der Kommentar als Denkform in der jüdischen Moderne (edited with Andreas Kilcher, 2018), and Benjamin Veitel Ephraim: Kaufmann, Schriftsteller, Geheimagent (2021), an edition of the writings of an eighteenth-century Berlin court Jew and spy. She has published widely on Sigmund Freud's life and work, and is an honorary member of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.

1. Introduction: Psychoanalysis, Fatherhood, and the Work of Mourning.- Part I Freud  Discovers Oedipus.- 2. The Road to Thebes: Freud and French Retrospective Medicine.- 3. The Dawn of the Oedipus Complex: A Tale of Two Letters.- Part II The Oedipus Complex After Freud.- 4. Freud's Oedipal Myth and Lacan's Critique.- 5. Deleuze-Guattari and the End of Oedipus.- 6. The Nuclear Family and Its Discontents: Freud, Jung, and Szondi and the Persistence of the Dynasty.- Part III Private and Public Fathers.- 7. Black Fathers, Oedipal Issues, and Modernity.- 8. Does a Father Need to be a Man?.- 9. Blindness and Repair in Institutional Psychoanalysis: A Brief History.- 10. A Fatherless Nation: Alexander Mitscherlich Analyzes Post-War Germany.- Part IV Media Matters.- 11. The Planetary Father Function.- 12. What is Called Father? (A Fissure in Familialism).