Name: Absent Fathers, Lost Sons: The Search for Masculine Identity (c. G. Jung Foundation Books Series)
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Author: Corneau, Guy
ISBN: 9780877736035

portada Absent Fathers, Lost Sons: The Search for Masculine Identity (c. G. Jung Foundation Books Series)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Guy Corneau

Publisher

Shambhala

Year

1991

Language

English

Pages

200

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.4 x 13.9 x 1.6 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN

0877736030

ISBN13

9780877736035

Edition No.

Synopsis "Absent Fathers, Lost Sons: The Search for Masculine Identity (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.