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« Initiation is an open door to reality. But today, the absence of the father is reflected at the collective level in the absence of rituals aimed at helping men to move from adolescence to adulthood. Becoming a man therefore requires all kinds of contortions, each more painful than the other. Modern rites of passage are unconscious. They range from accident to depression. Like ancestral initiation, however, they aim to break the passive ideal and the integration of what we disdain or what frightens us. »
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Guy Corneau
Missing father, missed son |
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Guy Corneau
Missing father, missed son
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« Initiation is an open door to reality. But today, the absence of the father is reflected at the collective level in the absence of rituals aimed at helping men to move from adolescence to adulthood. Becoming a man therefore requires all kinds of contortions, each more painful than the other. Modern rites of passage are unconscious. They range from accident to depression. Like ancestral initiation, however, they aim to break the passive ideal and the integration of what we disdain or what frightens us. »
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Guy Corneau
Missing father, missed son |
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Guy Corneau
Missing father, missed son
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« The task of the initiating father cannot be to confine himself to a model of perfection or an artificial attitude of "strong father". On the contrary, only the father's sharing of his simple humanity can bring the son to life and unload him from being a god or a villain. »
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Guy Corneau
Missing father, missed son |
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Guy Corneau
Missing father, missed son
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