Classic: Michael J. Diamond, "Masculinity and Its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood" (Routledge, 2021)
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The Father, the Father's Relationship to the Child
I was wondering about, you know, the paternalhow how do we think then, about the paternal or about fathering as asasan i guess activity. If if we take male receptivity into account, sure, absolutely so. It's analogous, in many ways, to the amous position, because there's a lot of fathering and mothering within the father. The father also has to be an attractive object for the child to want to be identified with, and, of course, will be identified by.
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