The problem of overcoming life's difficulties is one of the most actual problems of psychology. In this
regard, one of the significant factors that determine success is the peculiarities of the representation of the
father and mother as the first human communities, whose values and strategies permeate almost the entire
system of human relations with the world. A great contribution to the analysis of this problem was made
by the psychoanalytic direction, which considers parents as a "window to the world", providing a painless
overcoming of problems at different stages of psychosexual development, the development of a" grandiose
Self " that believes in its own potential for perfection and overcoming. Special significance, along with the
mother in the early stages, is given to the father, the measure of identification with which affects both the
development of a sublimating, overcoming personality, and co-dependent, with violations of gender-role
identity (homosexuality) of a person. Positive representation of the father and mother is the basis for
productive coping methods. Negative representation of parents is self-doubt, increased anxiety,
unproductive coping strategies, reaching its extreme expressions-parricide.