Description
Countless children throughout the world grow up without fathers.
The Father studies the reasons for this and assesses the contribution of this phenomenon to social and psychological problems.
Using images of the father from classical antiquity to the present day, Luigi Zoja views the origins and evolution of the father from a Jungian perspective. He argues that the father’s role in bringing up children is a social construction that has been subject to change throughout history. The author examines the consequences of this, and considers the crisis facing fatherhood today. This book fills an important gap, as no other existing book faces the subject of fatherhood from such a broad and multi-disciplinary perspective.
Covering these issues from historical, sociological and psychological points of view, The Father will be welcomed, both by people from a wide variety of disciplines including practitioners and students of psychology, sociology and anthropology, and by the educated general reader.
