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Absent Fathers, Lost Sons: The Search for Masculine Identity

Absent Fathers, Lost Sons: The Search for Masculine Identity

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Product Code:
1974-01
ISBN
978-619-01-0067-6
SKU
15.0175
Year
10-07-2017
Translation
From English: Lyudmila Andreeva
Pages
216
Size
140/215 мм
Weight
0.25 kg
Cover Type
Paperback
Genre
Relationships, Educational Psychology, Pedagogy, Mental Health, Parenting & Child Development, Trauma & Stress

Guy Corneau

Guy Corneau

Psychoanalyst of formation, Guy Corneau does not have a traditional career. His interest first turned towards the theater. Director of the troupe Organization - a creative collective, he wrote, performed and directed several plays, including La complainte de Fleurdelysée Fortin, which attracted Pierre Gauvreau's attention and was presented on Radio-Québec In 1974. His very last piece, Elle and Lui…

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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.

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