The Male In Analysis: Psychoanalytic and Cultural Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781403947390 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 176 str.

Anastasios Gaitanidis

Opis

The analysis of masculine issues is increasingly seen as a key cultural and therapeutic concern. This book focuses on masculinity and male identity in the context of psychoanalysis. Individual chapters address the historical positioning of the male psyche, contemporary debates on what it is to be male and advocate a new model of masculinity.

Spis treści

Introduction Locating the Male Within the Psychoanalytic Tradition; T.Adams Wrestling with Male(ness): Deconstructing the Virtual Macho World in Psychoanalysis and Culture; M.Stanton The Myth of Latency and the Construction of Boyhood; T.Adams Narcissism, Mourning and the 'Masculine' Drive; A.Gaitanidis The Phantom of the Primal Father; A.Gaitanidis On Men's Friendships with Other Men; L.O'Carroll Deconstructing the Homosexual-Heterosexual Divide; L.O'Carroll The Fear of Male Humiliation; T.Adams Achieving Our Country: Ethnic Difference and White Men's Racism; L.O'Carroll Conclusion.

O autorze

DR ANASTASIOS GAITANIDIS is a Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counselling at Roehampton University, a Visiting Lecturer in Psychodynamic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and an Associate Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Open University, UK. He is also a Psychodynamic Counsellor/Psychotherapist in private practice and a member of BACP, BPS and the SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is the editor of Narcissism – A Critical Reader (2007) and he is co-editor of Authoring the Sublime with Dr Tessa Adams.