Masculinity Concepts in Psychoanalysis

In the last few years, promising concepts for understanding masculinity have emerged from the perspective of inter-subjective, relational psychoanalysis; yet, a central theoretical problem is present in this approach: it focuses on "gender without sex". The theories focus primarily on questions of identity. In contrast to this, I place the conflict-based, unconscious psychosexual dimension of maleness at the center of focus and use the terms 'phallic' and 'genital' not as normative and metaphoric, but focus on - in the original Freudian sense - the sexual, bodily dimension.