The Psychology of the Masculine - James Hollis
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- What does it mean to be a man, and how does one embody masculinity? As gender roles and opportunities evolve over time, traditional initiation rituals for becoming a man have largely disappeared. How can we cultivate and experience healthy masculinity in the 21st century?
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Beautifully stated, The myth of manhood... . I have done Men's work for 30 years. Dr Hollis states it so well - whatever we mythologize a real man to be, we somehow judge "we aren't it". I was giving a talk several year ago on this topic, a wise older women approached me after. She said it's not that men can't live up to the myth (man box), she said it's because they know they are so much more then the myth but just can't speak of it out of a sense of shame.
Seems a confusion of levels or orders. We can and do know what male and female are biologically. Then too we can understand, resonate with and learn much about the archetypal level of masculine or feminine in all its aspects. But we on the ego and personal level are not and do not need to be exactly any of these. In fact to identify with an archetype completely is foolish; it is an inflation. It is like believing you are or must be a god or goddess: I am The Hero or I am The Mother, etc. Only in the movies or (bad) books. People are much more complex and interesting.
That must be a horrible feeling. To be a man and not feel like a man. Our present society is very confused. When a Supreme Court Judge, who is female, refuses to define what a woman is is, in fact, appalling! Her answer was, "I'm not a biologist!" There is something very wrong with our society today!