Absent Fathers, Lost Sons

The Search for Masculine Identity

Guy Corneau

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English

Shambhala
15 September 1991

Gender studies, gender groups; Psychology; Social, group or collective psychology; Popular psychology

Series: C. G. Jung Foundation Books Series

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.

By: Guy Corneau
Imprint: Shambhala
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 244g
ISBN: 9780877736035
ISBN 10: 0877736030
Series: C. G. Jung Foundation Books Series
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 15 September 1991
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Absent Fathers, Lost Sons: The Search for Masculine Identity

" This is a clear and thought-provoking book, a synthesis of much recent literature on masculine identity that should appeal to a broad readership— women as well as men." — Jim Boothroyd, The Montreal Gazette