A Father (n.) works on his daughter's mind, the mother on her son's Eros — so Oedipus marries his mother, and the daughter may end in animus possession, intellect swollen to a pathological degree.
A Father (n.) is the representative of the spirit, whose archetypal role — regardless of his personal qualities — is to oppose pure instinctuality; hence he is so often an object of the son's neurotic fears.
A Father (n.) is a paradox: he seems to live a life of unbridled instinct, yet is the living law that thwarts it — directed against incest with all the fury of uninhibited instinct.
A Father (n.) cast as the wicked one who forbade everything is far more inside us than outside — though patients can hardly be persuaded of it.
A Father (n.) as one's idea of him is a complex quantity for which the real father is only partly responsible, an indefinitely larger share falling to the son.
A Father (n.) is the auctor — authority, law and state; the one who moves in the world like the wind, the creative wind-breath, spirit, pneuma.
A Father (n.) is at first an all-encompassing God-image, who then shrinks into a limited and often all-too-human personality while his imago grows to its full significance.
A Father (n.) is, in the child's eye, war and weapon, the bull provoked to violence, the thunderstorm of bad moods — the cause of all changes.
A Father (n.) living or dead makes a difference: the psychology of a man whose father is alive always differs somewhat from one whose father has died.
The Father (n.) was not a father at all while he was the original One; he only became one, defined and definable, by incarnating in the Son.
The Father (n.) stands for the child's state of consciousness: a ready-made pattern of life with the force of law, taken in without judgment.
A Father (n.) embodies in dreams the traditional spirit — religion, a philosophy of life — that imprisons the dreamer in the world of consciousness and its values.
A Father (n.) as initiator into life's meaning survives today only in the dreams of his son, as the archetypal wise old man.
A Father (n.) cannot be reasoned away in the transference: persuade the patient you are not his father, and by that very act you become the reasonable father.
A Father (n.) has the primordial image of the Father standing behind him; did the human father really possess that power, his sons would soon liquidate him — or refrain from becoming fathers themselves.