CHAPTER III

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FATHER IN THE DESTINY OF THE INDIVIDUAL 156

Psychosexual relationship of child to father--Fürst's experiments quoted--The association experiment typical for man's psychological life--Adaptation to father--Father-complex productive of neurosis--Father-complex in man with masochistic and homosexual trends--Peasant woman "her father's favourite," tragic effect of the unconscious constellation--Case of eight-year-old boy with enuresis--Enuresis a sexual surrogate--Importance of infantile sexuality in life--Hence necessity for psychoanalytic investigation--The Jewish religion and the father-complex--Parental power guides the child like a higher controlling fate--The conflict for the development of the individual--Father-complex in Book of Tobias.