father hunger
English
Noun
father hunger (uncountable)
- (psychology) The longing felt by (especially young) men for approbation from a father, or father figure. [from 20th c.]
- 1990, Reuben Fine, The History of Psychoanalysis (expanded edition), p. 630:
- Father hunger appears to be a crucial motivational variable in matters as diverse as caretaking, sexual orientation, moral development, and achievement level.
- 2006, Christopher P. Mason, Crossing into Manhood, p. 118:
- Father hunger is the deep, but often unconscious, longing young men, and even older men, have for affirmation from male authority figures.
- 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties, Twelve Books:
- Bill Clinton, like many presidents, may have had what men's movement activist Robert Bly has called “father hunger.”
- 1990, Reuben Fine, The History of Psychoanalysis (expanded edition), p. 630: