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标题：The Inner Father
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作者：EDYTHE M. KRAMPE
期刊名称：Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers
印刷版ISSN：1933-026X
出版年度：2003
卷号：1
期号：2
语种：English
出版社：Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers
摘要：In this article, I explore the inner experience of the father and father presence and offer a new interpretation of the son’s or daughter’s bond with his/her father. I first delineate the subjective inner world and the role of symbols in it. I then describe the elements of this world, particularly as they pertain to the inner father. I draw from object relations theory, Bowlby’s ethological attachment theory, analytic psychology, and cultural anthropology to hypothesize the existence of the inner father, an innate symbolic structure in the psyche, which I refer to as the sense of father. The inner father is also made up of introjected material from actual experience with the personal father. I explicate how the inner father and the introjected father contribute to the father image, an intrapsychic phenomenon similar to Bowlby’s internal working model. Fatherlessness is also addressed at the personal, social psychological, and societal levels. The significance of the inner father for practitioners is discussed.