ABSTRACT
The dichotomy between manhood and selfhood results in many seemingly incomprehensible crises in interpersonal relationships. What seems most incomprehensible about these crises often manifests itself first in the form of a “communications problem.” Both people in the relationship will experience-though likely for quite different reasons-a rather mysterious breakdown in communications. Where before the two people talked back and forth quite genially in a common language, suddenly each seems to be speaking in a tongue the other finds unintelligible. And once communications have been thus rent, there appears little hope of finding out what went wrong-so things get worse.
