Liliane Weissberg is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Science at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Among her recent book publications are
Nachträglich, grundlegend: Der Kommentar als Denkform in der jüdischen Moderne (edited with Andreas Kilcher, 2018), and Benjamin Veitel Ephraim: Kaufmann, Schriftsteller, Geheimagent (2021). She has published widely on Sigmund Freud's life and work, and is an honorary member of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.

1. Introduction: Psychoanalysis, Fatherhood, and the Work of Mourning

Part I Freud Discovers Oedipus

2. The Road to Thebes: Freud and French Retrospective Medicine

3. The Dawn of the Oedipus Complex: A Tale of Two Letters

Part II The Oedipus Complex After Freud

4. Freud's Oedipal Myth and Lacan's Critique

5. Deleuze-Guattari and the End of Oedipus

6. The Nuclear Family and Its Discontents: Freud, Jung, and Szondi and the Persistence of the Dynasty

Part III Private and Public Fathers

7. Black Fathers, Oedipal Issues, and Modernity

8. Does a Father Need to be a Man?

9. Blindness and Repair in Institutional Psychoanalysis: A Brief History

10. A Fatherless Nation: Alexander Mitscherlich Analyzes Post-War Germany

Part IV Media Matters

11. The Planetary Father Function

12. What is Called Father? (A Fissure in Familialism)