ABSTRACT
This chapter subjects that very few studies focused on the psychic processes involved in military service, and none have attempted to evaluate the emotional processes that fathers raising sons cope with, knowing that the sons will enter into military service and all it involves. The intergenerational and intercultural baggage carried into the psyche of the mythological father, together with the acknowledgment of the possibility of arousing unconscious underground activity of that kind in the fatherhood psyche, echo in the meaning behind what the fathers say. The fathers directly expressed feelings of guilt towards their sons. Behind the fathers' silence and the few sentences spoken, there is a paternal anxiety over the sons' future enlistment. However, unlike the mothers, who were a "trumpet of anxiety", the fathers tried to neutralize their anxiety with multiple emotional defences: using lower impact language.
