The Man Who Never Was: Freudian Tales of Women and Their Men

by JanetSayers (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.25

  Why do people cling so strongly to ideas of manhood ? What harm do these images do to us, and how may we heal it? Sayers's work examines how people absorb and cling to images of maleness. Through a number of case studies, she looks at a series of fixations, from virgin birth to Don Juan and shows how different stereotypes are acted out - the wimp, tough guy, pervert and tomboy. Following these, come topics ranging from depression and superman mania to repressed abuse and the final obsessive or schizoid fragmentation of personality. A century ago, Freud analyzed the ills of patriarchy in the first analytic casebook. Sayers's modern tales re-examine Freud's theories, and present an urgent plea for transforming psychology, therapy and case-work from its recent focus on the mother, to a renewed awareness of the father.