Masculinity and Cultural Change
Wild Men
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18967208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Parker (0000-0001-8734-4081, Manchester Metropolitan University) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 455-475 |
| Publication date | 1995-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture & Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-067X • E-ISSN: 1461-7056 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1354067x9514003 |
| OpenAlex | W2116561915 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 17 |
New images of masculinity in Robert Bly's Iron John (1990/1991) are explored using versions of discourse analysis and psychoanalytic theory. Different discursively constructed forms of masculinity also reproduce forms of psychoanalytic knowledge (in this case Reichian and Habermasian forms), and the task of the analysis is to demonstrate how that knowledge is structured. The 'Wild Man' is the eruption into the body politic of a new version of psychoanalytic subjectivity. The analysis focuses on the meeting-point between discourses which supply surfaces of emergence for different models of the individual and experiential dynamics which are organized into different subjective configurations in and against language. This meeting-point is analytically decomposed into a series of 'discursive complexes'. Discursive complexes are both systems of statements (discourses) and psychoanalytic themes. This type of analysis is concerned in general with the workings of ideology, and in this particular case with authoritarianism. The ideological context is explored (through complexes of distortion, separation and castration) in order to understand the ways in which the social shapes and meanings of masculine authority are being transformed and reproduced
Epistemology · Ideology · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Subjectivity · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
On the menu
Gender in culture-inclusive psychologies
Wild Man or Golden Bird
Emotional Illiteracy
Gaming at a LAN event
Reading and Living Images of Masculinity
The Emotional Appeal of Violent Video Games for Adolescent Males
The fathers of Destiny
Varieties of Discursive Experience in Psychology
Social Consumption of Cannibals
Subjectivity and method in psychology
The Political Psyche
Discourse Dynamics (Psychology Revivals)
On systematically distorted communication
The Dialectical Imagination
Spreading Myths about Fairy Tales
Reflexive research and the grounding of analysis
I. Masculinities, Identity and the Politics of Essentialism
Toward a Rational Society
Freud or Reich? Psychoanalysis and Illusion
Erkenntnis und Interesse
In a different voice
Jung and Feminism
The racism of Jung
| Citations per year | 0.32 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 2024 (30) |
| Highly cited | No |