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THE ELUSIVENESS OF MASCULINITY: PRIMORDIAL VULNERABILITY,LACK, AND THE CHALLENGES OF MALE DEVELOPMENT
Authors:MICHAEL J. DIAMOND
Affiliation:Training and Supervising Analyst at Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, Los Angeles, California.
Abstract:Reaching beyond the Oedipus prototype to address the unrepresentable vulnerability founded on the boy's infantile helplessness in contact with the mother's body, the author aims to identify the inherent tensions and enigmas of being male. He proposes that both the repudiation of femininity and the overvaluation of phallicity are unconsciously constructed to withstand the fundamental deficiency grounded in the asymmetry of the boy's prephallic relation with his primary object. This bodily based primordial vulnerability, marked by absence and lack, remains elusive—an unsymbolizable experience that provides the archaic matrix for adaptive and defensive phallicism, the oedipal complex, and genital progression. A clinical vignette is presented to illustrate these concepts.
Keywords:Masculinity  male gender identity  primordial vulnerability  infantile helplessness  lack  prephallic phase  phallicity  inner genital  psychic bisexuality  paternal function  dyadic and triadic reality  homoerotic love for father  receptivity/activity
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