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Riddles of masculinity: gender, bisexuality, and thirdness
1Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute, USA. geraldfogel@comcast.net
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
|March 16, 2007
Summary
This study reexamines male psychology, integrating feminist and gender studies to understand masculinity
Area of Science:
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Gender studies
- Male psychology
Background:
- Examines basic psychoanalytic assumptions about male psychology.
- Integrates advances in female psychology, feminist theory, and gender studies.
- Addresses ambiguities and paradoxes in masculinity, bisexuality, and thirdness.
Observation:
- Clinical examples highlight complexities in male patients.
- Traditional psychoanalytic views on heterosexual men are reevaluated.
- Contemporary psychoanalytic theory and gender studies inform the analysis.
Findings:
- Reexamining assumptions reveals complexity and nuance in male characterology.
- Advances in understanding female psychology offer new perspectives on male psychology.
- Challenges traditional, limiting formulations of male identity.
Implications:
- Aids clinicians in treating complex characterological presentations in men.
- Highlights the need to move beyond gender stereotypes in psychoanalytic practice.
- Encourages updated theoretical frameworks for optimal clinical effectiveness in men's mental health.
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