Masculinity Concepts in Psychoanalysis

• Autores: Ilka Quindeau
• Localización: Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, ISSN 0340-4528, Vol. 43, Nº. 2, 2018, págs. 377-386
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • In the last few years, promising concepts for understanding masculinity have emerged from the perspective of inter-subjective, relational psychoanalysis; yet, a central theoretical problem is present in this approach: it focuses on “gender without sex“. The theories focus primarily on questions of identity. In contrast to this, I place the conflict-based, unconscious psychosexual dimension of maleness at the center of focus and use the terms ‘phallic’ and ‘genital’ not as normative and metaphoric, but focus on – in the original Freudian sense – the sexual, bodily dimension.

    In psychoanalytic theory, masculinity has remained a ‘dark continentʼ, even though, over the years, at least some light has been shed on femininity. This is odd, since from Sigmund Freud until the 1970 s, phallocentrism has dominated psychoanalysis. And despite all the critique directed at it, in the end psychosexual development was regarded as mono-gender – the model was based on males.