PERIODIZATION OF THE FATHER-SON RELATIONSHIP MODES

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  • Period: 4000 BCE to 400

    Infanticide modality

    Parents routinely resolved their childcare anxieties by mistreating, punishing, and sometimes even killing them. this deeply afected the surviving children. Those who were able to grow, developed a projective reaction where the child is seen as a vehicle to attribute behaviors of adults.
    This passage from the adult image to the projected image is a precondition for abuse.
  • Period: 400 to 1200

    Type of abandonment

    Parental abandonment wishes stem from a powerful attempt to "undo" parenthood in order to escape the punishment they imagine their own parents will inflict on them, meaning that the only way to escape the dangers of their own projections was through of abandonment.
  • Period: 1300 to

    Ambivalent mode

    Since the child, when allowed to enter the emotional life of the parents, remained a container of dangerous projections, it was their
    task to shape it. Thus, the adult would require sufficient emotional maturity to see the child as a person separate from himself and respond accordingly to his needs.
  • Intrusive Mode

    Intrusive Mode

    The reduction of the projection and the disappearance of the investment was the achievement of the great transition of the relations between parents and children that took place in the eighteenth century. The child was no longer so full of dangerous projections, so there was a greater closeness of the parents, where they guided him and helped him control his needs and problems.
  • Period: to

    Mode of socialization

    As the projections continued to
    diminish, raising a child became a training rather than a process of conquering his will.
    Where the infant is accompanied and directed by the parents, so that he adopts a good
    criterion of discernment, discipline and is capable of exercising a good role as a citizen.
  • Help mode

    Help mode

    Model that aims to please or satisfy the child´s needs, since it starts from the proposition that the child knows best what is best for him at each stage of his life. Parents who cooperate together must be able to correctly interpret their emotional conflicts and provide the specific objects for their progressive evolution. The result of this model is a kind, sincere and strong-willed child who is not intimidated by authority.