father image
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Or is he a "father image," a stand-in for a rough guy's notion of God?
From Time Magazine Archive
They speculated that perhaps Jackie needs a "father image."
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At 65, Chairman-Mao Tse-tung is at once China's emperor, pope and father image.
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Marx isn't very highly regarded as a thinker," Chiaramonte says, "but as a father image he is very much present.
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And we can go so far as to call this spiritual power a father image.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely
