Absent Fathers, Lost Sons by Guy Corneau
An experience of the fragility of conventional images of masculinity is something many modern men share. Psychoanalyst Guy Corneau traces this experience to an even deeper feeling men have of their fathers' silence or absence-sometimes literal, but especially emotional and spiritual. Why is this feeling so profound in the lives of the postwar baby boom generation-men who are now approaching middle age? Because, he says, this generation marks a critical phase in the loss of the masculine initiation rituals that in the past ensured a boy's passage into manhood. In his engaging examination of the many different ways this missing link manifests in men's lives, Corneau shows that, for men today, regaining the essential second birth into manhood lies in gaining the ability to be a father to themselves-not only as a means of healing psychological pain, but as a necessary step in the process of becoming whole.
Guy Corneau is a Jungian analyst, author, and lecturer who has made this book a best-seller in France and Canada with his seminars on inti-macy. He is launching a series of talks based on Lessons in Love in the United States in fall 1999. He lives in Montreal.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780877736035 |
| ISBN 10 | 0877736030 |
| Title | Absent Fathers, Lost Sons |
| Author | Guy Corneau |
| Series | C G Jung Foundation Books Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Year published | 1991-03-27 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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