男人到底要什么 WHAT MEN WANT

Whatistrulytheweakersex?Whichhasahardertimewithitssexualandaggressivedrives?ThecomplicatedbusinessofbeingmaleisfinallygivenitsdueinthisbookbyJohnMunderRoss,apremierresearcherandwriteronthesubjectofmasculinity.Distillingtwentyyearsofstudy,heexploresthemaleconditionfrominfancytomanhood,exposingitscomplexityandfragilityinthefaceofcon-flictingfamilial,social,andsexualimpulses.Theauthor'spsychoanalyticfocusisan-choredinclinicalexperience.Buthisinterdis-ciplinarybackgroundleadshimtodrawonmythology,anthropology,sociology,history,andliteratureinformulatingandillustratinghisideasaboutmaleidentityanddevelop-ment.Aboy'searlyidentificationwithhismother,theevolutionofhisfatherlyambi-tions,theaggressionandgenerationalrivalryinfather-sonrelationships,thedevelopmen-talroleofromantic,eroticpassion:asRosspursuesthesethemes,hedocumentstheongoingchangesinviewsofmalepsycho-logy.Hisbook,then,isbothageneralintel-lectualhistoryofthepsychoanalyticstudyofmaledevelopmentandalucidaccountofwhatthatstudyhastotellus.Throughout,Rossemphasizesthefeminineundersideofaman'snatureandthedestructivepotentialinherentinassertinghisvirility,internalten-sionsthatresultinthecomplicatedandoftenshakysenseofmanhoodsoclearlydescribedinthisbook.Compellingandinsightful,WhatMenWantilluminatestheconceptsthatfiguremostprominentlyinourunderstandingofthemodernmalecondition:fatherhood,aggres-sion,andheterosexuallove.Morethananyotherworktodate,itsolvesthemysteryofwhatitmeanstobemale.