In the Name of the Fatherless

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matt 27:46): the words of a son feeling abandoned by his father. Both Freud and Jung (among many others) identified the significance of the father-imago in the psychological makeup of both men and women (the Oedipal conflict, the Elektra complex…). The two pioneering psychoanalysts were interested in how this worked in the psyche and how the unregenerated father-imago could haunt people throughout their lives (they also, obviously, were interested...