Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives From Psychoanalytic Gender Theory (psychoanalysis In A New Key Book Series)

Reis Bruce. (ed.) Heterosexual Masculinities - Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory [Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series v. 11] 2009 [pdf 290sc 268c. 2.31mb]In recent years there have been substantial changes in approaches to how genders are made and what functions genders fulfill. Most of the scholarly focus in this area has been in the areas of feminist, gay, and lesbian studies, and heterosexual masculinity - which tended to be defined by lack and absence - has not received the critical and scholarly attention these other areas have received. Heterosexual Masculinities rethinks a psychoanalytic tradition that has long thought masculinity as a sort of brittle defense against femininity, softness, and emotionality. Reflecting current trends in psychoanalytic thinking, this book seeks to understand heterosexual masculinity as fluid, multiple, and emergent. The contributors to this insightful volume take new perspectives on relations between men, men’s positions as fathers in relation to their sons and daughters, the clinical encounter with heterosexual men, the social contexts of masculinity, and the multiplicity of heterosexual masculine subjectivities. What to a previous generation would have appeared as pathological or defensive, we now encounter as forms of masculine subjectivity that include wishes for intimacy, receptivity, and surrender, alongside ambition and the pleasures of "phallic narcissism." In recent years there have been substantial changes in approaches to how genders are made and what functions genders fulfill. Most of the scholarly focus in this area has been in the areas of feminist, gay, and lesbian studies, and heterosexual masculinity - which tended to be defined by lack and absence - has not received the critical and scholarly attention these other areas have received. Heterosexual Masculinities rethinks a psychoanalytic tradition that has long thought of masculinity as a sort of brittle defense against femininity, softness, and emotionality. Reflecting current trends in psychoanalytic thinking, this book seeks to understand heterosexual masculinity as fluid, multiple, and emergent. The contributors to this insightful volume take new perspectives on relations between men, men?s positions as fathers in relation to their sons and daughters, the clinical encounter with heterosexual men, the social contexts of masculinity, and the multiplicity of heterosexual masculine subjectivities. What to a previous generation would have appeared as pathological or defensive, we now encounter as forms of masculine subjectivity that include wishes for intimacy, receptivity, and surrender, alongside ambition and the pleasures of "phallic narcissism."--Publisher description In recent years there have been substantial changes in approaches to how genders are made and what functions genders fulfill. Most of the scholarly focus in this area has been in the areas of feminist, gay, and lesbian studies, and heterosexual masculinity - which tended to be defined by lack and absence - has not received the critical and scholarly attention these other areas have received. __Heterosexual Masculinities__ rethinks a psychoanalytic tradition that has long thought masculinity as a sort of brittle defense against femininity, softness, and emotionality. Reflecting current trends in psychoanalytic thinking, this book seeks to understand heterosexual masculinity as fluid, multiple, and emergent. The contributors to this insightful volume take new perspectives on relations between men, men’s positions as fathers in relation to their sons and daughters, the clinical encounter with heterosexual men, the social contexts of masculinity, and the multiplicity of heterosexual masculine subjectivities. What to a previous generation would have appeared as pathological or defensive, we now encounter as forms of masculine subjectivity that include wishes for intimacy, receptivity, and surrender, alongside ambition and the pleasures of "phallic narcissism." Masculinities, Plural / Ethel Spector Person -- Masculinity And Its Discontents : Making Room For The Mother Inside The Male : An Essential Achievement For The Healthy Male Gender Identity / Michael J. Diamond -- Names Of The Father / Bruce Reis -- Two Men Talking : The Emergence Of Multiple Masculinities In Psychoanalytic Treatment / Robert Grossmark -- Imperfect Love, Imperfect Lives : Making Love, Making Sex, Making Moral Judgments / Irwin Hirsch -- On Intimacy Between Men / Emmanuel Kaftal -- An Eruption Of Erotic Vitality Between A Male Analyst And A Male Patient / William F. Cornell -- David And Jonathan / Eyal Rozmarin -- Psychotherapy With Poor African American Men : Challenges Around The Construction Of Masculinities / C. Jama Adams -- Fathers And Daughters / Adrienne Harris -- Finding A Father : Repetition, Difference, And Fantasy In Finding Nemo / Louis Rothschild -- Interiority And Inner Genital Space In Men : What Else Can Be Lost In Castration? / Gerald I. Fogel. Edited By Bruce Reis, Robert Grossmark. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents 10 Contributors 12 Introduction 16 Chapter 1. Masculinities, Plural: Ethel Sepctor Person 22 Chapter 2. Masculinity and Its Discontents: Making Room for the "Mother" Inside the Male-An Essential Achievement for Healthy Male Gender Identity 44 Chapter 3. Names of the Father 76 Chapter 4. Two Men Talking: The Emergence of Multiple Masculinities in Psychoanalytic Treatment 94 Chapter 5. Imperfect Love, Imperfect Lives: Making Love, Making Sex, Making Moral Judgements 110 Chapter 6. On Intimacy Between Men 126 Chapter 7. An Eruption of Erotic Vitality Between a Male Analyst and a Male Patient 148 Chapter 8. David and Johathan 172 Chapter 9. Psychotherapy With Poor African American Men: Challenges Around the Construction of Masculinities 184 Chapter 10. "Fathers" and "Daughters" 210 Chapter 11. Finding a Father: Repetition, Difference, and Fantasy in Finding Nemo 238 Chapter 12. Interiority and Inner Genital Space in Men: What Else Can Be Lost in Castration? 252 Index 282 Over the years there have been substantial changes in approaches to how genders are made and what functions genders fulfill. This title rethinks a psychoanalytic tradition that has long thought of masculinity as a sort of brittle defense against femininity, softness, and emotionality.