Masculinity and Its Discontents
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-72403-0 (ISBN)
Drawing on classical Freudian theory, as well as on more contemporary psychoanalytic theories, this book explores early infancy and child development, preoedipal factors and the oedipal complex, the influence of parenting and the unconscious transmission of gendered factors both by mothers and both biological and symbolic fathers, the male ego ideal, social, cultural, and biological influences, the role of inherent psychic bi-genderality in the context of gender binaries, and the inherent gendered tensions and challenges experienced as an individual progresses into adult and later life. This book is original in its characterization of the male developmental trajectory as underpinned by psychoanalytic principles pertaining to conflict and inherent tensions that continue throughout the life cycle and strongly impact other areas of life. Deeply rooted in the unconscious, a man’s multiply determined sense of masculinity requires deconstructing the mother, the feminine, and the other in the male psyche. As the text illustrates via clinical vignettes, an awareness and an understanding of these areas can improve the clinical work of psychoanalysts working with men who struggle with the intrinsic conflicts in their sense of maleness.
This book will be of great clinical value to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and other mental health practitioners, and will stimulate the thinking of scholars in such areas as gender theory, psychodynamic and sociocultural aspects of gender roles, and the changing social definition of masculinity.
Michael J. Diamond is a Training and Supervising Analyst, Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. He has authored over ninety articles and chapters as well as three books, including My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives and The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action (with C. Christian). He is in private practice in Los Angeles.
1. The Roots of Male Gender Identity: An Introductory Overview 2. An Integrative Perspective on "Masculine" Gender and Bigenderality 3. The Shaping of Masculinity in Early Childhood 4. The Impact of Actual and Symbolic Fathering on Masculinity 5. The Impact Of Mother and Mother-With-Father Together 6. Social, Cultural, and Biological Influences on the Concept of Masculinity and Gender: Constructing the Male Ego Ideal 7. Maturing Masculinity, Receptivity, and Gender Fluidity: Its Trajectory through Midlife Transitions and Later Life Changes 8. Gender and Masculinity in Analytic Practice, and Concluding Thoughts
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.06.2021 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 353 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-72403-0 / 0367724030 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-72403-0 / 9780367724030 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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