Growing up in thwarted relationship with father perceived as lacking in meeting the basic nurturing needs of the father-son relationship disrupts boy's normative development and may leave him fixated in regressive state. This also impacts the mother-son relationship. This paper uncovers obscure layers of the male psyche and argues that regressive state renders the grown man highly susceptible to developing narcissistic tendencies in adulthood. These tendencies are likely to affect interpersonal relationships including impotence and sexual performance with women. Implications for psychodynamic counseling and clinical supervision are discussed.Keywords: narcissistic tendencies, father-son relationship, impotence, psychodynamic counseling, clinical supervisionHolmes (1999) submits that the quality of the parent-child relationship tends to be the template by which the realm of other relationships would fall. The father-son dynamic in specific appears to have an impact on the relationships boys develop with themselves and others, including their adult male-female relationships (Goss, 2006; Herzog, 2001; Jacobs, 1977). Extensive research on this subject led Herzog (2001) to contend that the quality of the relationship father or father figure may develop with his children crucial in the children's developmental landscape. Herzog (2001) coined the term father-hunger, to explicitly depict child's yearning for his or her father's nurturing (p.21). Herzog (2001) adds that father is an affective state experienced when the father felt to be (p. 51). While Herzog concedes that this yearning for father's availability applies to both sons and daughters, he suggests this sense of longing far more prevalent and processed differently by boys. A plausible explanation may be found in how girls experience thenrelationship with their fathers as separate from the one they have with their mothers - which not the case with boys (Gauthier, 2010).Following Freud's earlier arguments, Gauthier (2010) proposes that boys expect to be rescued by their fathers from what they perceive to be their mothers' propensity toward engulfinent, but they (the fathers) also lead the boys back to mother, at new relational (p. 116). This new relational level proposed by Gauthier, should distinguish the mother's self from her son's self. It should be noted that girls do not need their fathers to rescue them from their mothers as they innately want to identify with them (Hall, 1954).Gauthier (2010) extends Herzog 's (2001) arguments on father-hunger and argues that father-hunger in boys not only includes the quality of the relationship son may have with his father, but also encompasses the relationship boy perceives to be between his mother and his father as couple, as well as his own place in the triad: father-son-mother. Moreover, boy whose father or father figure consistently absent (physically, emotionally, or both) more likely to perceive his mother as the responsible agent for his father's absence, which would in turn impact the mother-son relationship (Gauthier, 2010).In his successive work, Herzog (2010) came to recognize this phenomenon - how boys react to the relationship of parents together as couple - and added this dynamic to his repertoire as a father-hunger and father-and-mothertogether hunger (p. 112). Although father-and-mother-together may be experienced by both boys and girls, it appears to have the most impact on boys' development. The father-and-mother-together refers to an emotional yearning for the metaphorical union of both parents and the fusion of the parents with the child (enmeshment). In other words, with the help of fathers, mothers learn to appreciate their sons' right to their own perspectives, which may be different than their own. When fathers fail to help their sons separate from their mothers, boys tend to develop enmeshment with both parents (Gauthier, 2010). …