ABSTRACT
As hominids, all people, both men and women, experience the same affects. Miguel is a forty-five-year-old economist, divorced, with one son. He is nice-looking, successful in his social life and work relations. His main complaint is expressed through the conflicts in his relationship with his partner. Stoller reports that the roots of what we call masculinity are defences against the facts of having been brought into the world by a woman and having been a passive and defenceless baby. Sofi, twenty-seven, is a dancer of modern dance and is single. She has been coming to sessions because she can’t bear “her anguish and her sorrows”. She is pretty and attractive. She has been in analysis four times a week for one year. Culture has greatly influenced the comprehension and study of this theme, so much so that it is impossible to speak of men and women and their affects in the abstract.
