{"product_id":"the-telemachus-complex-parents-and-children-after-the-decline-of-the-father-paperback-softback-9781509531721","title":"The Telemachus Complex; Parents and Children after the Decline of the Father (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509531721","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Telemachus Complex\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eParents and Children after the Decline of the Father\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMassimo Recalcati (Author), Alice Kilgarriff (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509531721, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 September 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e160 pages\u003cbr\u003e19.6 x 13 x 1.5 cm, 0.204 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘With his customary blend of wisdom, acumen and wit, Recalcati travels deep into the world of Odysseus to re-tell the story of Telemachus for our times. This book shows the Italian master at his thought-provoking best. All fathers shall prescribe it to their children!’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDany Nobus, Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology, Brunel University London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFatherhood today is in crisis. Fathers have gone missing, or have become their children’s playmates, and the symbolic authority of the father has lost its power. What remains of the father today in the wake of this decline, and what should the relation between children and parents now be? \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn addressing these questions, Massimo Recalcati draws inspiration from the story of Telemachus in Homer’s \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e. The Telemachus complex is the reverse of the Oedipus complex. Recalcati argues that children are possessed not just with a desire to annihilate their father, as their key rival in the contest to win the mother’s love, but also with a longing for a father-figure, as someone who brings meaning, structure and order to their lives and who imbues them with a sense of the future. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis fresh and insightful account of the changing relations between parents and children in the era of the decline of the father will be of great interest to a wide general readership.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Law of the Word and the New Hell \u003cbr\u003e Praying Is No Longer Like Breathing\u003cbr\u003e Aphonia and the Father’s Amnesia\u003cbr\u003e The Hell of Salò\u003cbr\u003e The Law of the Word\u003cbr\u003e How Do We Transmit the Word of the Law?\u003cbr\u003e We are A Scream in the Night\u003cbr\u003e Escape From Freedom\u003cbr\u003e The Fantasy of Freedom As a Hypermodern Fantasy\u003cbr\u003e Mass Freedom\u003cbr\u003e Dying to Work\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Confusion Between Generations\u003cbr\u003e The Parents’ Task\u003cbr\u003e The Law and the laws\u003cbr\u003e Adulterations\u003cbr\u003e Transgression, or an Appeal to the Law?\u003cbr\u003e A New Discontent of Youth\u003cbr\u003e The Trauma of the Non-Existence of the Sexual Relationship\u003cbr\u003e Femicidal Violence\u003cbr\u003e The Technological Object and Depression in Youth\u003cbr\u003e Evaporation and Invention\u003cbr\u003e 3. From Oedipus to Telemachus\u003cbr\u003e Four Types of Child\u003cbr\u003e The Child-as-Oedipus\u003cbr\u003e The Anti-Oedipal Child\u003cbr\u003e The Child-as-Narcissus\u003cbr\u003e The Child-as-Telemachus\u003cbr\u003e 4. What Does It Mean To Be A Rightful Heir?\u003cbr\u003e Inheritance as Reclamation\u003cbr\u003e An Excess of Memory\u003cbr\u003e The Anti-Melancholy of Jesus and Nietzsche\u003cbr\u003e The Negation of Symbolic Debt\u003cbr\u003e Telemachus Is The Rightful Heir\u003cbr\u003e What Does Inheritance Mean?\u003cbr\u003e The Recognition of the Symbolic Debt\u003cbr\u003e The Symbolic Difference Between Generations\u003cbr\u003e Act, Faith and Promise\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Reading Pain on the Leaves\u003cbr\u003e Index of Names\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52453384880408,"sku":"9781509531721","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509531721.jpg?v=1785283658","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-telemachus-complex-parents-and-children-after-the-decline-of-the-father-paperback-softback-9781509531721","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}