{"id":691,"date":"2025-08-28T11:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T11:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amiralimohammadi.com\/publications\/uncategorized\/father-or-worse-book-review-telemachus-complex\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:34:33","slug":"father-or-worse-book-review-telemachus-complex","status":"publish","type":"publications","link":"https:\/\/amiralimohammadi.com\/en\/Publications\/writings\/father-or-worse-book-review-telemachus-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Father or Worse; Book review: Telemachus Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Abstract<br\/>Massimo Recalcati, a thoughtful Lacanian writer, draws on the Telemachus complex to explain the growing new form of dissatisfaction among the younger generation. He offers a fresh interpretation of the contemporary relationship between children and parents, demonstrating how the symbolic authority of the father has lost its power and has irreversibly collapsed.<br\/>In the early chapters, Recalcati introduces the issue and in the later ones, he emphasizes the decline of the function of the &#8220;Law of the Word.&#8221; Through an intergenerational and mythological approach, he aims to describe the shift from Oedipus to Telemachus and its consequences.<br\/>The Telemachus complex is the inverted form of the Oedipus complex. Oedipus saw his father as a rival standing in his way. In contrast, Telemachus uses his eyes to explore the sea and gaze toward the horizon. He waits for a father he has never met to return and restore the law to his land, which has now been overrun by unruly suitors.       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":879,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"publication_type":[56],"class_list":["post-691","publications","type-publications","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication_type-writings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amiralimohammadi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amiralimohammadi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amiralimohammadi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publications"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amiralimohammadi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amiralimohammadi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amiralimohammadi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}