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The expression [[father complex]] was used by [[Sigmund Freud]] in the period 1910-1913 to designate [[feeling]]s of [[guilt]] and of [[castration]] [[anxiety]] relating to the [[father]], and therefore to the [[Oedipus complex]].
The expression first appears in the article "The [[Future ]] Prospects of [[Psycho]]-[[Analytic ]] [[Therapy]]" (1910d), when [[Freud]] wrote that "in [[male ]] [[patients ]] the most important [[resistances ]] in the [[treatment ]] seem to be derived from the father complex and to express themselves in [[fear ]] of the father, in defiance of the father and in disbelief of the father" (p. 144).
He attributed specifically to [[Carl Gustav Jung]] the coinage of the term [[complex]], and in the same year he used it in developing the expression "[[Oedipus ]] complex," which was at this [[time ]] nearly synonymous with "father complex."
The expression was hardly ever used by [[Freud]] again, except in ''[[Totem and Taboo]]'' (1912-13a), where it took on a more specific [[meaning]].
Here, in [[essence]], it referred to the [[guilt]] and [[castration]] [[anxiety]] experienced by the son in the "[[primitive horde]]" after the [[murder ]] of the [[father]], which in turn led to the [[repression]] of [[incest]]uous [[wish]]es toward the [[mother]].
Transmitted from generation to generation, this complex explains the permanence and [[universality]] of the [[Oedipus complex]].
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* [[Freud, Sigmund]]. (1910d). The future prospects of [[psychoanalytic ]] therapy. SE, 11: 139-151.* ——. (1912-13a). [[Totem ]] and [[taboo]]. SE, 13: 1-161.
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