The father complex also stood at the conceptual core of Totem and Taboo (1912-3).
In 1911, Freud wrote that 'in the case of Schreber we find ourselves once again on the familiar ground of the father-complex' a year earlier, Freud had argued that the father complex-fear, defiance, and disbelief of the father-formed in male patients the most important resistances to his treatment. In 1909, Freud made 'The Father Complex and the Solution of the Rat Idea' the centrepiece of his study of the Rat Man Freud saw a reactivation of childhood struggles against paternal authority as standing at the heart of the Rat Man's latter-day compulsions.
Use of the term father complex emerged from the fruitful collaboration of Freud and Jung during the first decade of the twentieth century-the time when Freud wrote of neurotics 'that, as Jung has expressed it, they fall ill of the same complexes against which we normal people struggle as well'.
