Father, lover, hero . . . we all have powerful images of manhood. Why do we cling to them so strongly? What harm do they do us? In this moving and humane book, the author of Mothers of Psychoanalysis brings these issues to life through 15 beautifully told case studies that show what happens when both sexes act out different male stereotypes.
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Our unwarranted, inflated images of men?as all-powerful patriarchs, phalluses incarnate, monsters or idols?damage women and men alike, maintains British psychotherapist Sayers. In 15 lively psychoanalytic case histories, she explores how distorted notions of masculinity carry over into adult defense mechanisms of denial, mania and obsessive control. Some patients fear the strength the father represents, like Tessa, who treats her small son's father as a nonentity and barricades herself and the boy in their house to fend off potential male intruders. Another patient, Celia, having been brutally beaten as a girl by her father and whose mother stole her boyfriends, develops Oedipal fixations on a series of abusive lovers. Several case histories feature men who act out the male stereotypes of Don Juan, wimp, tough guy, con man and pervert. In a wise and liberating book, Sayers tempers Freud's male-centered theories with the mother-centered insights of Vienna-born British psychoanalyst Melanie Klein and with a feminist awareness of patriarchy's social, sexual and power imbalances.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A pioneering look--through the lens of riveting true stories--at how illusions about masculinity maintain patriarchal relationships and prevent both women and men from fulfilling their potential.
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