The Man Who Never Was: Freudian Tales Of Women And Their Men - Softcover
Identifying the stereotypical illusions of masculinity, fifteen case studies demonstrate how both genders will act out male roles and in doing so prevent either from fulfilling their potential.
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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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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.
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- PublisherBasic Books
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0465045588
- ISBN 13 9780465045587
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Trade Paperback. In fifteen case studies the author shows how both sexes act out and react to different male stereotypes - from wimp to tough guy to superman. She traces the ways these roles fuel depression, obsessive behavior, or even severe, schizoid breakup of personality. Wear at edges, reading creases, rubbed. Size: 6" x 9". TRADE PAPERBACK. Seller Inventory # 008512
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