To be a man

Paperbound, xxii + 294 pp. including notes. Contents: This book consists of 89 contributions from men and a few women from various periods, disciplines, countries, and other categories, comprising essays, articles, interviews, poetry, short stories and novel excerpts, memoirs, diaries and journals, and more. Some selections were written for this volume, but most are from previously published works. Listed below are the titles of the sections (parts). Where a selection appears by an author with Jungian connections, its individual title and author are given, preceded by the contribution's number in the book. PART I, To be a man: Questions of identity, 5 selections including: 3. Robert Bly / What men really want 4. Aaron R. Kipnis / Forgotten images of sacred masculinity 5. Thomas Moore / Eros and the male spirit PART 2, Male initiation: Images of masculine rites of passage, 9 selections including: 6. Robert Bly / The need for male initiation 8. Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette / The crisis in masculine ritual process 13. Allan B. Chinen / Men's mid-life initiation into the deep masculine PART 3, Through the eye of the wound: Images of male pain, fear, anger, loss and grief, 13 selections including: 22. Robert H. Hopcke / A dream of ants and spiders: Men and feelings PART 4, The body of his soul: Passion, desire, imagination, sexuality, and spirit, 12 selections including: 37. Michael Ventura / Coming 38. Eugene Monick / Phallos and religious experience PART 5, Loving, losing leaving, longing: Encounters with women and the feminine, 17 selections including: 42. C. G. Jung / American men as sons of their wives 56. John A. Sanford and George Lough / The goddesses and masculine psychology PART 6, The tall one called father: Psychological, mythic, religious and personal reflections, 12 selections including: 63. Robert Bly / Father hunger in men 66. James Hillman / Fathers and sons 67. Nor Hall / Broodmales PART 7, Ways of men at work, 5 selections PART 8, Keeping male company: The spirit and soul of men together as men, 9 selections including: 74. James Hillman / Love in male friendship Part 9, The last season: Men growing older, 7 selections Notes Contributors