Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Man

Images and ideas associated with masculinity are forever in flux. In this book, Donald Moss addresses the never-ending effort of men-regardless of sexual orientation-to shape themselves in relation to the unstable notion of masculinity. Part 1 looks at the lifelong labor faced by boys and men of assessing themselves in relation to an always shifting, always receding, ideal of masculinity. In Part 2, Moss considers a series of nested issues regarding homosexuality, homophobia and psychoanalysis. Part 3 focuses on the interface between the body experienced as a private entity and the body experienced as a public entity-the body experienced as one's own and the body subject to the judgments, regulations and punishments of the external world. The final part looks at men and violence. Men must contend with the entwined problems of regulating aggression and figuring out its proper level, aiming to avoid both excess and insufficiency. This section focuses on excessive aggression and its damaging consequences, both to its object and to its subjects. Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Man will be of great interest not only to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, but also to a much wider audience of readers interested in gender studies, queer studies, and masculinity. Review: It is not only Moss's scholarship and the depth of his theoretical and clinical insights that make the book bold; it is also that, in looking at a man in different ways, Moss at times works like a memoirist who uses his own experience to deepen consideration of masculinity. Sidney H. Phillips for The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 2014 This unusual, vital, and in places demanding book is about the contemporary shifting scene of psychoanalytic assessment of masculinity. ...Moss has offered many more than 13 ways of looking, of profoundly and richly perceiving his own topic, men. The book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, scholars of gender, and cultural critics.Summing Up: Highly recommended. - R. H. Balsam, Yale University, for CHOICE, January 2013 Donald Moss's Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man is undoubtedly one of the most important books of the past decade on the complexities of the development of male gender identity. The book, as reflected in its title, offers no solutions to the questions it raises; rather, it examines the problem of gender identity from a number of vantage points, each of which complements, but also complicates, the others. What for me is a particular pleasure in reading this book is the writing itself-writing that is often used to describe some of the author's own experiences as a boy faced with the daunting task faced by all boys in their efforts to grow up to be a man in one's own terms. - Thomas Ogden, Personal and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California Donald Moss has written a brilliant, emotionally unsettling and brave book. The ostensive topic of Moss' book is a close look at masculinity, but actually this book is an examination of masculinities that turn the standard normative forms of gender inside out. In Moss' project, the canonical has become symptomatic. Through the psychoanalytic lens he deploys so deeply, Moss illuminates how much all our struggles with desire and loss inevitably overwhelm us in the project of forming and becoming selves, with dangerous and destructive consequences. We are all inevitably displacing and expelling those aspects of body and mind that frighten and shame us into the bodies and lives and minds of weaker and more vulnerable people. This is Moss' original and potent way of thinking through misogyny, homophobia, and the often murderous attitudes toward difference and otherness, including trans experience. Moss asks us to see that these refusals and disavowals of our complex humanity have enormous and dangerous consequences individually, collectively, and politically - Adrienne Harris, PhD, New York University Fascinating, thought-provoking exploration of the notion of masculinity, written in an intelligent, accessible style - Michael Feldman, Supervising and Train

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