Abstract

SOUSA SAMPAIO, Ronaldo  and  AMORIM GARCIA, Claudia. Dissecting masculinity at the crossroads of psychoanalysis and gender studies. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2010, vol.16, n.1, pp.81-102. ISSN 1677-1168.

This article focuses on the construction of masculinity based on the articulation between gender studies and psychoanalysis, theoretical approaches which refute essentialist assumptions and emphasize the dynamic and contingent nature of masculinity. Starting with a brief presentation of Judith Butler’s concept of gender, it discusses the psychoanalytic view of masculinity represented by Stoller’s and Greenson’s seminal research, as well as by Diamond’s studies, whose theoretical perspective allows a connection with gender studies. Diamond acknowledges the inevitability of double identifications in the development of gender identity, and denies the need for primary deidentification suggested by Greenson, thus pointing out the possibility of a plural and fluid process of psychic construction, a theoretical approach similar to gender theories

Keywords : masculinity; man; gender; psychoanalysis; primary identification.

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