The lover within : accessing the lover in the male psyche

Preface - Erotic man and the garden of love. Part 1 - Hard wiring: the masculine soul. 1 Gender identity, gender asymmetry, and the sexual imbalance of power. 2 Decoding the male psyche. Part 2 - Images of the masculine lover. 3 The garden, the phallus, and libido. 4 The lover's origins. 5 His path through the garden. 6 The lover in his fullness. Part 3 - The uninitiated lover: malfunctions and shadow forms. 7 The impotent: lost in the wasteland. 8 The addict: possessed by the lover within. Part 4 - Erotic man: embodying masculine joy. 9 Embodying the lover within. Epilogue - Joy to the world: returning to the garden through love. Appendices. A - Decoding the quaternio: beyond Jung. B - Archetypes and the limbic system. C - Archetypes and the anima

'It is in our inner Lover that most of us have been most deeply hurt. And yet we each have a powerful, largely untapped resource that has remained unaffected by all he damage we have experienced in our lives. The instinctual, archetypal Lover is wainting to supply every man and every woman with a joy and fullness of being that are the real goals of every "quest for meaning." The Lover is the quadrant of the human soul that gives the others their reason for being.'

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