“Quando dois homens se encontram”: dilemas e estranhamentos com as masculinidades em um trabalho clínico

Abstract

This article is based on our clinical and academic experiences around masculinities. As a cis, white, heterosexual man, clinical psychologist, and as a cis, white, homosexual man and university professor, we have been taken and touched in different ways in our respective personal, clinical and academic trajectories by what touches and happens to us. After all, what are the effects of masculinities on our subjective constitution as men in our daily practices? Drawing inspiration from different theoretical and disciplinary fields, and adopting the case study as a methodological tool, we take masculinities as an ideological-political device forged from complex dynamics of gender power. To this article, in dialogue with both the field of masculinity studies as well as with the productions of Lacanian-inspired psychoanalysis, based on the clinical experience of the first author, we take the "P." case as an ideal type to think about how norms of gender shapes men's identities and experiences, with effects on both subjective and intersubjective dimensions.