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Understanding Masculine Psychology - Research Papers

Understanding Masculine Psychology

The Fisher King Legends are narrations of masculine psychology, explaining the roots of man’s actions in an entertaining context. The Fisher King is named such because he was wounded when he was an adolescent after walking upon a deserted camp with a salmon roasting over an open fire. The boy was hungry and gave in to his desire, breaking a bit of the salmon that was too hot, burning him and causing the boy to drop the fish into the fire leaving only the magnificent taste on his fingers. Robert A. Johnson suggests that this is symbolic of the “first fact of man’s psychology. The salmon is one of the many symbols of Christ. A boy in his early adolescence touches something of the ...

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the majority of men can find a moment where the innocent veil of boyhood was pierced, or an event in that the ease of being gives way to struggle and conflict. In this sense, “all men are Fisher Kings. Every boy has naively blundered into something that was too big for him, gotten halfway through, realized that he couldn’t handle it, and collapsed. Then he is wounded, he is hurt terribly, and he goes off to lick his wounds. A certain bitterness arises because he tries so hard to and actually touches his salmon – individuation – yet he cannot hold it. It only burns him (Johnson 10).”
Every male struggles with the conflict of moving from the innocent simplistic joy of boyhood to the complex pain and happiness of adulthood, of individuality. That first taste drives men for the whole, but we have to earn happiness in adulthood, that requires decisions. Choices give birth to a value system that employs standards to evaluate and choose a course of action. Our value ...

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Added: 9/2/2004 05:01:08 PM
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