ABSTRACT
Presented at a round table discussion on ‘The Role of Family Life in Child Development’ at the 29th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association, London, July 1975, this paper was published under the title ‘Discussion of the role of family life in child development’ with a subtitle, ‘On father formation in child development’, in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis (1976) 57: 397–401.
