The article seeks to demonstrate, by means of clinical vignettes, the negative consequences brought into women's lives by experiences of having been abandoned by the father figure. In this study, the theoretical benchmark was primarily Analytical Psychology, in addition to the psychoanalytic concepts of repetition compulsion and melancholy. There is also a description of the results achieved in cases treated with psychotherapy based on Jungian clinical method. The achievements, in general, relate to greater psychic integration by these women, who were able to establish greater internal balance between the masculine and feminine polarities. That balance brought positive impacts to these women, such as improved self-esteem and greater sense of confidence, and made possible for them to experience healthier emotional relationships, based on a lower degree of submission and dependence.
Abandonment; Individuation; Women; Analytical psychotherapy; Father-child relations