ABSTRACT
A clear barrier exists between the individual psychological and collective/social levels of narrative, and maybe that barrier serves a useful function, Crossing it lightly might be dangerous in that psychoanalysis would seek to become a totalizing discourse, taking a position of mastery and normalization. Overcoming the homosexual inhibition moves the reader towards an apprehension of what male nurturing might look like and that itself would constitute an enormous challenge to most of the conventionally accepted ideas about the son-father relationship in psychoanalysis today. Psychoanalysis is uneasy about generational bonding against the parents on the basis of brother-sister erotics. In the son-father area of a man's internal family, the author explored the implications for new political forms of a move from a focus on rivalry and castration to one on cooperation, mutual admiration and protection, and an acceptance and utilization of homosociality and homosexuality.
