Fathers Or Sons?

First Published in 1999. This is Volume VIII of twenty-eight in the Psychoanalysis series. Written in 1927, this study explores the thesis that attitudes which had their origin in the infantile relationship of father-son are often the true cause of the adult's orientation toward particular social movements. Part 1 Contra-Father Motives; Chapter 1 The Rescue Phantasy; Chapter 2 The Father as Aggressor, Oppressor, Criminal, Etc.; Chapter 3 The Father as Monopolist-Capitalist; Chapter 4 The Castrating or Killing Phantasy; Chapter 5 Ambivalence; and the God Complex; Part 2 Pro-Father Motives; Chapter 6 Anxiety, Conscience, Sense of Sin, Self-Abasement and Self-Punishment; Chapter 7 Persecuting the Sons; Chapter 8 Homosexuality, Jealousy for the Father’s Love, and Identification with Him; Chapter 9 Providence; Chapter 10 Loyalty; Chapter 11 Authority, Conformity, Suggestion, and Auto-Suggestion;