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Theory of "dread of women" (1932)
Fear of the mother
The Warrior Gene
Adult males choose socially inferior women as love objects and undermine women's self-respect in order to bolster their own self esteem
20th century's three main projects for a science of masculinity:
Pop culture: ideas about sex and love as created by Hollywood, social media, influencers?
1. Clinical knowledge acquired by psychotherapists
2. Social psychology theories of "sex roles"
3. Theories of gender provided by anthropology, history and sociology
Man Box Discussion
What are some of the consequences for boys learning to devalue qualities that are said to be feminine but are actually human qualities?
What would it be like for boys to feel free to value and express all emotions, including sadness and fear?
How can we make it safer for all individuals to resist and challenge limiting stereotypes?
Freud's ideas developed in 3 steps:
1. Initial statements of psychoanalytic principles: normal and neurotic mental life, repression of desires, unconscious
2. Adult masculinity was a complex and precarious construction
3. Structure of personality with id, ego, superego
Trigger Warning: Sexual Violence Discussed