DR ANASTASIOS GAITANIDIS is a Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counselling at Roehampton University, a Visiting Lecturer in Psychodynamic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and an Associate Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Open University, UK. He is also a Psychodynamic Counsellor/Psychotherapist in private practice and a member of BACP, BPS and the SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is the editor of Narcissism – A Critical Reader (2007) and he is co-editor of Authoring the Sublime with Dr Tessa Adams.

• IntroductionLocating the Male Within the Psychoanalytic Tradition; T.AdamsWrestling with Male(ness): Deconstructing the Virtual Macho World in Psychoanalysis and Culture; M.StantonThe Myth of Latency and the Construction of Boyhood; T.AdamsNarcissism, Mourning and the 'Masculine' Drive; A.GaitanidisThe Phantom of the Primal Father; A.GaitanidisOn Men's Friendships with Other Men; L.O'CarrollDeconstructing the Homosexual-Heterosexual Divide; L.O'CarrollThe Fear of Male Humiliation; T.AdamsAchieving Our Country: Ethnic Difference and White Men's Racism; L.O'CarrollConclusion.

DR ANASTASIOS GAITANIDIS is a Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counselling at Roehampton University, a Visiting Lecturer in Psychodynamic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and an Associate Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Open University, UK. He is also a Psychodynamic Counsellor/Psychotherapist in private practice and a member of BACP, BPS and the SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is the editor of Narcissism – A Critical Reader (2007) and he is co-editor of Authoring the Sublime with Dr Tessa Adams.

• IntroductionLocating the Male Within the Psychoanalytic Tradition; T.AdamsWrestling with Male(ness): Deconstructing the Virtual Macho World in Psychoanalysis and Culture; M.StantonThe Myth of Latency and the Construction of Boyhood; T.AdamsNarcissism, Mourning and the 'Masculine' Drive; A.GaitanidisThe Phantom of the Primal Father; A.GaitanidisOn Men's Friendships with Other Men; L.O'CarrollDeconstructing the Homosexual-Heterosexual Divide; L.O'CarrollThe Fear of Male Humiliation; T.AdamsAchieving Our Country: Ethnic Difference and White Men's Racism; L.O'CarrollConclusion.

DR ANASTASIOS GAITANIDIS is a Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counselling at Roehampton University, a Visiting Lecturer in Psychodynamic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and an Associate Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Open University, UK. He is also a Psychodynamic Counsellor/Psychotherapist in private practice and a member of BACP, BPS and the SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is the editor of Narcissism – A Critical Reader (2007) and he is co-editor of Authoring the Sublime with Dr Tessa Adams.

• IntroductionLocating the Male Within the Psychoanalytic Tradition; T.AdamsWrestling with Male(ness): Deconstructing the Virtual Macho World in Psychoanalysis and Culture; M.StantonThe Myth of Latency and the Construction of Boyhood; T.AdamsNarcissism, Mourning and the 'Masculine' Drive; A.GaitanidisThe Phantom of the Primal Father; A.GaitanidisOn Men's Friendships with Other Men; L.O'CarrollDeconstructing the Homosexual-Heterosexual Divide; L.O'CarrollThe Fear of Male Humiliation; T.AdamsAchieving Our Country: Ethnic Difference and White Men's Racism; L.O'CarrollConclusion.