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Episode 33.The Phantom of Emptiness. On the Psychodynamics of White Depression.

Lives of the Unconscious. A Podcast on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

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The Importance of Fathers

The child internalizes a so-called dead object, and acquires in this example the complex of a dead father. The feeling of a profound meaninglessness is imprinted into the center of the self. An alternative family background that may nevertheless have similar consequences could be the systematic failure of the parent to relate meaningfully to the child.

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