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Will to Masculinity: An Existential Examination of Men's Issues
Author(s) -
Schermer Travis W.,
Holmes Cornelius N.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the journal of humanistic counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.593
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2161-1939
pISSN - 2159-0311
DOI - 10.1002/johc.12082
Subject(s) - masculinity , meaning (existential) , existentialism , humanism , power (physics) , sociology , gender studies , psychoanalysis , aesthetics , psychology , epistemology , philosophy , theology , physics , quantum mechanics
The will to meaning can be frustrated by supplanting meaning with its consequence (e.g., will to power). The present treatise suggests that dominant male culture has supplanted meaning with masculinity, thus creating a will to masculinity. This work seeks to conceptualize the issues of modern masculinity through an existential‐humanist lens.