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The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire & Father Wounds
The Father Image and the Feminine in the Psyche
Recorded Seminar with Susan E. Schwartz, PhD
This recording provides access to the seminar originally presented by Susan E. Schwartz, PhD, exploring father absence, father desire, and father wounds through the perspective of Jungian analytical psychology.
A father’s absence may be physical, but it may also take the form of emotional unavailability, disconnection from his own affective life, or an inability to be psychologically present.
From a Jungian perspective, the effects of father absence cannot be understood solely in relation to the actual father. The father complex, father archetype, and unconscious father images may continue to influence self-worth, body image, relational patterns, experiences of authority, recognition, and the ways in which the individual seeks value and affirmation.
While the father–daughter relationship provides the central point of departure, the seminar is not limited to daughters or women. The feminine is approached as a psychological and symbolic dimension of the psyche across genders, allowing for a broader exploration of the relationship between the father image and the feminine.
The seminar also considers how unconscious father images may become constellated in adult relationships and how these psychic contents may be approached within the process of individuation.
Topics Explored
- The distinction between the actual father and the father archetype
- Father desire and the need for paternal recognition
- Physical and emotional father absence
- The father complex and unconscious father images
- Father wounds and their effects on self-worth
- Body image and the father–daughter relationship
- Repetitive relational patterns in adulthood
- Attraction to emotional unavailability
- Projection of the father image onto partners and authority figures
- The father image and the feminine dimension of the psyche
- Recognition, authority, value, and relational longing
- Bringing unconscious material into consciousness
- The movement from absence toward psychological presence
- The father image within the process of individuation
Who Is This Recording For?
This recorded seminar is intended for mental health professionals, students, researchers, and anyone interested in analytical psychology, father–daughter dynamics, father complexes, the psychology of the feminine, unconscious relational patterns, and individuation.
No specific professional qualification is required to access the recording.
Recording Information
Speaker: Susan E. Schwartz, PhD
Format: Recorded Seminar
Duration: Approximately 2 hours
Language: English
Turkish translation: Included
Original seminar date: October 17, 2026
Delivery: Digital access to the seminar recording
