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Reading Between the Lines

Subjectivity and Men’s Violence

David Gadd

Keele University

This article discusses the relative merits of psychoanalytic and psychodiscursive approaches to the study of masculinities and men’s violence. The case histories of four men are presented and analyzed. Two of these men were antisexist men seeking to help other men to change, and the other two were men who were getting help to stop being violent. Using these case histories, this article seeks to demonstrate that psychic experience is not a simple product of social discourses, and therefore masculinity cannot be straightforwardly read off from what men say. The article concludes by arguing that the psychoanalytic notion of a defended subject draws our attention to the unities among men more effectively than psychodiscursive approaches precisely because it is able to acknowledge biographically mediated differences between men.

Key Words: violence • embodiment • hegemony • psychoanalysis • psychosocial • psychodiscursive • Jefferson • Hollway • Wetherell • Edley

Men and Masculinities, Vol. 5, No. 4, 333-354 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X02250838
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