Beschreibung:
Debate over gender and especially the lives of men is currently at a fever pitch, particularly in the United States. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary American Men challenges narrow stereotyped views of men by arguing that men are as complex and layered as women.
Preface Chapter 1: Gender Uncertainty in 21st Century America: Psychoanalysis Widens the Conversation Chapter 2: Straight Families Making Straight Boys: Phallic and Relational Threads in Boys' Early Lives Chapter 3: Gay Boyhoods and Fathers: The Gay Oedipus & Beyond Chapter 4: Authenticity: Men's Struggle to Live an Ethical Life Chapter 5: Between Abjection and the Ecstatic: The Erotic Lives of Men Chapter 6: Intimate Knots: The Unconscious Dynamics of Intimacies Afterword: A Transsituated Perspective on Bodies and Genders