Imperatives of masculinity

a listening from classical psychoanalysis to the digital age

Abstract

The theme of masculinities is not new. While hegemonic masculinity has been mapped by various gender and sexuality authors, enabling a contemporary psychoanalysis, involved in the remapping and reinterpretation of contemporary movements in understanding non-hegemonic masculinities, how could we read – through psychoanalysis – the processes of male subjectivation at a time when the Other presents itself in unprecedented ways through the logic of social networks? Amidst a miscellany of discourses, what productions of male subjectivity occur in psychic configurations, in the structuring of identities and sexualities in new male social imaginaries? Despite the movement of masculinity crises repeatedly attempting to dominate what is masculine and man, the interpretation of these movements is not anticipated in an already stated psychoanalysis, but rather in a "not yet said" about a repeated yet not identical event.