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Why did Freud supplement the Oedipal myth with the mythical narrative of the "primordial father" in Totem and Taboo (T&T)? The lesson of this second myth is the exact obverse of the Oedipus: far from having to deal with the father who, intervening as the Third, prevents direct contact with the incestuous object (thus sustaining the illusion that his annihilation would give us free access to this object), it is the killing of the father, i.e., the very realization of the Oedipal wish, which gives rise to symbolic prohibition (the dead father returns as his Name).

Double fate of Anna Freud as a woman and as an analyst is built around the ambiguity of his desire to please - and not offend - the father, but also around the ambiguity of his desire him, Freud, vis-à-vis his daughter. It does not cease to warn, and that very soon, against potential suitors, and first and foremost against Jones, whom he suspects of wanting to woo Anna, then aged nineteen, when it 's is made only in England

 Babies whose fathers engage positively with them when they are three months old behave better later in life, research suggests.

BBC : February 26, 2016, Friday Sperm have been made in the laboratory and used to father healthy baby mice in a pioneering move that could lead to infertility treatments. The Chinese research took a stem cell, converted it into primitive sperm and fertilised an egg to produce healthy pups.