What Men Want: Mothers, Fathers, and Manhood

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		What Men Want: Mothers, Fathers, and Manhood
		What Men Want: Mothers, Fathers, and Manhood

基本信息·出版社：Harvard University Press
·页码：252 页
·出版日期：1994年06月
·ISBN：0674950801
·条形码：9780674950801
·版本：第1版
·装帧：精装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：男人到底要什么

内容简介 Book Description
The author, a researcher and writer on the subject of masculinity, explores the male condition from infancy to manhood, exposing its complexity and fragility in the face of conflicting familial, social and sexual impulses. The author's psychoanalytic focus is derived from his clinical experience, but his interdisciplinary background leads him to draw on mythology, anthropology, sociology, history and literature in formulating and illustrating his ideas about male identity and development. Ross pursues such themes as: a boy's early identification with his mother; the evolution of his fatherly ambitions; the aggression and rivalry in father-son relationships; and the developmental role of romantic, erotic passion; these factors document the ongoing changes in views of male psychology. This work is both a general history of the psychoanalytical study of male development, and an account of what that study conveys. Throughout, Ross emphasizes the feminine aspects of a man's nature and the destructive potential inherent in asserting his virility, internal tensions that may result in a complicated and shaky sense of manhood.

Review
Ross shows a broad understanding of men and their psychology and shares some of his earlier brilliant insights on the reinterpretation of the Oedipus complex, great literature as a source of examples and models for the varieties of the love experience, the transition to fatherhood, and the meaning of being a father in men's lives.
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--William S. Pollack, Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital

Book Dimension
Height (mm) 235 　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Width (mm) 155
媒体推荐 For the past 30 years or so, experts, activists, and talk show hosts have been thoroughly absorbed with what women want, what women don't have, and what society has done to women. The 'dominant sex,' meanwhile, has been relatively ignored in scholarly tomes and readily abused in political and pop-psych rhetoric...[This book seeks] to bring men back into the picture, and, just as astonishing, [does] so with sympathy...Many of [the author's] conclusions are not new at all, but really pieces of old wisdom, long buried under layers of errant nonsense, ideological excess, and not-so-benign neglect...Munder Ross...[makes an] important contribution to the contemporary debate. -- Jean Bethke Elshtain "Wilson Quarterly"
编辑推荐 Over the past two decades Ross has become an important contributor to the ongoing psychoanalytic dialogues on male development and adaptation throughout the life cycle...Ross draws freely on classical viewpoints, ego psychology, cognitive developmental processes (with particular reference to Piaget), and object relations theories. Unlike many psychoanalytic theorists, however, while exploring the world of inner objects and affects he does not lose sight of the shaping influence of external realities...Feminist critiques have emphasized the phallocentric bias of Freud's theorizing. Despite this bias, Freud and his followers left much of the territory of male development unexplored. Ross helps illuminate some of the neglected areas. He synthesizes the work of others and offers his own original research and reformulations of aspects of masculinity and paternity. What Men Want: Mothers, Fathers, and Manhood makes a significant contribution to the dialogue on male desire and developmental needs over the course of the life cycle.
--James W. Barron (Contemporary Psychology )^For the past 30 years or so, experts, activists, and talk show hosts have been thoroughly absorbed with what women want, what women don't have, and what society has done to women. The 'dominant sex,' meanwhile, has been relatively ignored in scholarly tomes and readily abused in political and pop-psych rhetoric...[This book seeks] to bring men back into the picture, and, just as astonishing, [does] so with sympathy...Many of [the author's] conclusions are not new at all, but really pieces of old wisdom, long buried under layers of errant nonsense, ideological excess, and not-so-benign neglect...Munder Ross...[makes an] important contribution to the contemporary debate.
--Jean Bethke Elshtain (Wilson Quarterly )^Ross presents a psychoanalytic study of male development by focusing on a boy's early identification with his mother, his ambitions to become a father, the aggression and generational rivalry of father-son relations and, finally, the development of romantic, erotic passion for a woman...Detailed reinterpretations of the Oedipus myth, with a special focus on King Laius, the father of Oedipus, and of the classic case of Little Hans, provide illustrations of Ross's arguments. These reanalyses are supplemented with case studies from his research/clinical experiences. The discussion of Freud's reluctance to confront adult sexuality and passionate love is especially interesting, and the conclusion that womb envy is no less a factor in the inner life of men than penis is in the psychology of women is certain to stir thought in any reader. (Choice )^Ross shows a broad understanding of men and their psychology and shares some of his earlier brilliant insights on the reinterpretation of the Oedipus complex, great literature as a source of examples and models for the varieties of the love experience, the transition to fatherhood, and the meaning of being a father in men's lives.
--William S. Pollack, Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital
目录
1 Studying Men
1
2 From Mother to Father
14
3 Becoming a Father
48
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