Absent Fathers, Lost Sons: The Search for Masculine Identity Corneau GuyPaperback
Absent Fathers, Lost Sons: The Search for Masculine Identity Corneau GuyPaperback A Jungian analyst examines masculine identity and the psychological repercussions of 'fatherlessness'--whether…
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Absent Fathers, Lost Sons: The Search for Masculine Identity Corneau GuyPaperback
A Jungian analyst examines masculine identity and the psychological repercussions of 'fatherlessness'--whether literal, spiritual, or emotional--in the baby boom generationAn experience of the fragility of conventional images of masculinity is something many modern men share. Why is this feeling so profound in the lives of the postwar "baby boom" generation--men who are now approaching middle age? Psychoanalyst Guy Corneau traces this experience to an even deeper feeling men have of their fathers' silence or absence--sometimes literal, but especially emotional and spiritual.
Because, he says, this generation marks a critical phase in the loss of the masculine initiation rituals that in the past ensured a boy's passage into manhood.In his engaging examination of the many different ways this missing link manifests in men's lives, Corneau shows that, for men today,