This paper serves to analyse Dubliners` living conditions induced by the absence of the father. As for Dubliners, the absence of the father is a symptom of trauma caused by the hardships of Irish history. The long English repression and colonialization causes Dubliners to search for the father as a redeemer. We refer to "Aeolus" as the best description of such a condition. In "Aeolus," we find the loss of intention which cannot be detected at the presence of the father. Dubliners indulge in drinking during the day and horse racing. The Nationalists try to revive the intention by producing rhetoric to create fictions about the independent country to come. Nationalist rhetoric, however, unknowingly commits enthymemic fallacies. That is why nationalist movements just provide ways of vicarious satisfaction, which also cannot make up for the absence of the father. Seeing into the heart of such symptom, Stephen gives a parable to deal with searching for the father in vain. The father means the object of desire but the desire cannot be achieved, in the same way that Dubliners continue to live with the absence of the father. To put it in Stephen`s way, the absence of the father is the trauma "from which you will never awake."