Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity: From Toxic to Seminal [Hardcover]

Part One: Becoming Masculine??1. The Uniquely Masculine??Part Two: The Interior World??2. Male Internal Genital Space? 3. Being Inside: The Topography of the Interior??Part Three: The Phallic World? 4. The Phallic Defence in the Boy: The Repudiation of Seminality? 5. Phallic Monism: A Defensive Collaboration? 6. Parthenogenic Procreation??Part Four: The Seminal World? 7. Seminal Masculinity? 8. Incapacity and Ambivalence in Seminal Masculinity??Part Five: Masculinity as Repudiation of Femininity? 9. Misogyny in the Production of Masculinity? 10. Social Misogyny? 11. Toxic Masculinity in the Financial Crisis: A Case Study??Conclusion??12. The Unease in Normal Masculinity: Between Desolation and Hope

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.?

'The psychoanalytic understanding of male sexuality has tended towards overemphasising the penis, and scotomotising the testicles. The dominance of this discourse has served to maximise exploration of the phallic and minimise interest in the generative aspects (the seminal), both clinically and socially. Karl Figlio, a highly respected psychoanalytic clinician, has spent his professional life exploring the boundaries between psychoanalysis and culture. This book is exemplary in this respect showing the interpenetration of the individual and the social. It makes a profound contribution to our understanding of male sexuality and is particularly timely, as toxic male sexuality is an increasingly dominant feature of our world.'?

David Bell is a psychoanalyst and former president of the British Psychoanalytic Societl³k