Absent Fathers, Lost Sons Absent Fathers, Lost Sons

Absent Fathers, Lost Sons

The Search for Masculine Identity

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Publisher Description

A Jungian analyst examines masculine identity and the psychological repercussions of ‘fatherlessness’—whether literal, spiritual, or emotional—in the baby boom generation
 
An experience of the fragility of conventional images of masculinity is something many modern men share. 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. Why is this feeling so profound in the lives of the postwar “baby boom” generation—men who are now approaching middle age? 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, regaining the essential “second birth” into manhood lies in gaining the ability to be a father to themselves—not only as a means of healing psychological pain, but as a necessary step in the process of becoming whole.

GENRE
Body, Mind & Spirit
RELEASED
1991
27 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
200
Pages
PUBLISHER
Shambhala
SELLER
Random House, LLC
SIZE
1.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Ramsey.sh44 ,

Great book by a great author

This book helped me to look at things within myself if completely different way. I am saddened that the author passed away or else I’d have contacted him and thanked him for this book.

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