Hard Act to Follow
Subtitle: Living in the Shadow of the Parent
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781782205470
Subjects: Parent and child; Psychoanalysis; Family, psychological aspects
Description: "Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Shadow of the Parent explores the psychological challenges faced by the offspring of either famous or notorious parents. Beginning with parental legacies found in mythology and the Bible, the book presents a series of case studies drawn from a range of narrative contexts, selecting personalities drawn from history, politics, psychoanalysis, and literature, all viewed from an analytic perspective. The concluding section focuses on the manifestation of this parental shadow within the field of fine art, as written by artists themselves. This is a lively and varied collection from a fascinating range of contributors. It provides readers with a new understanding of family history, trauma, and reckoning screened through a psychoanalytic perspective, and will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, counsellors and anyone interested in the dynamics of the family."--