Rethinking The Psychoanalysis Of Masculinity From Toxic To Seminal | Mental Health

Drawing on a broad range of psychoanalytic cultural and social influences the author examines the concept of toxic masculinity for how it brings into focus a widespread anxiety about toxicity throughout daily life: In nature society and personal relationships. Aggressive misogynistic masculinity has become a major topic in recent years spreading throughout popular culture the media and research. Often called 'phallic ' it simmers in everyday life and hits the headlines for turning florid and violent in maintaining its dominance especially towards women. But at the extreme phallic masculinity has recently crystallized in a very different form as toxic masculinity and 'toxic' has become the near-universal epithet for all forms of extreme destructiveness in a 'toxic culture.' It has brought into focus and named as masculine an anxiety over toxicity in every corner of everyday life. Exploring toxic masculinity in depth brings out a misogynistic current that pervades individual and social realms but also throws a sharp light on normal masculinity. By elaborating on the roots of this toxicity Figlio is able to draw out a different more positive alternative for masculinity with particular reference to the underlying fears around fertility and the seminal. With a strong research and clinical base this book is essential reading for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists and cultural and social theorists interested in exploring concepts of masculinity. |Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity From Toxic to Seminal | Mental Health