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The Swiss member societies of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies, namely the two existential analytic societies and the Institute of Psychoanalysis in Kreuzlingen, have always stressed the philosophical foundation of psychoanalysis as psychoanalytic approaches with severely disturbed and psychotic patients. The colleagues working in these institutes have often cooperated very closely with analysts from the International Psychoanalytical Association. This paper stresses the important contributions for inpatient psychoanalytic approaches.
In Ferenczi's view, dreams have a traumatolytic function that is anterior to and more primary than the wish-fulfilment function considered by Freud. This view is influenced by a number of metapsychological conceptions that occasionally are quite different from Freud's approach, especially as regards the economical and topical points of view, which Ferenczi clearly set apart in posthumous works. In these conceptions, he >dismisses< pondering a so-called death instinct and advancing towards the notion of an unconscious other than repressed. Otherwise, as Ferenczi considers that in dreams there is an >optimistic counterfeit,< the present article reflects on how to overcome this hypomanic solution in order to turn the traumatolytic potential of dream into a fully therapeutic function. A dream taken from a film is used to illustrate Ferenczi's point of view.
Статья посвящена философской экспертизе понятия >ненависть<. При этом ненависть рассматривается не только как индивидуальное чувство, но и как социальное явление. Автор озабочен разрастанием ненависти в мировом и отечественном пространстве и пытается показать, что этот грозный симптом чреват непоправимыми последствиями. В исследовании проводится анализ исторических бедствий, продиктованных кипящей ненавистью. Ненависть выступает как возбудитель общественных потрясений. Автор также задумывается над тем, как понизить градус взаимного неприятия, чтобы ненавистнические настроения не оставили после себя выжженное поле рассудочности, накипь дурных аффектов и не породили бы эффект бумеранга. Методы, использованные в статье, связаны с феноменологией социального мышления. Автор опирается на отдельные высказывания философов о ненависти, чтобы создать целостный, гештальтный портрет данного эмоционального состояния. Он использует также положения психоанализа об амбивалентности человеческих чувств, раскрывая вслед за Шекспиром гнев, который скрывается в любви, и нежность, служащую покровом любви. Новизна подхода заключается в том, что ни в философских, ни в этических словарях нет статей, специально посвящённых этому эмоциональному состоянию. Показано, что ненависть является неустранимой чертой человеческой природы. Опираясь на работы Сенеки, Ф. Ницше, Э. Фромма, Ж.-П. Сартра, а также примеры из мировой и отечественной истории, автор раскрывает различные грани данного феномена, его социальные, психологические и антропологические корни.
Freud's pre-1914 texts demonstrate why he consistently asserted that his free-associative method was the sine qua non of his discipline. Prior to 1914, Freud's theorizing was intimately and inextricably connected to his lived experience with the discovery of this method. After 1914, he became more speculative in this thinking and writing; his models of the >mental apparatus< and its functioning drew increasingly on conceptual sources other than his experience with free association. The four fundamental coordinates of his discipline (the methodical disclosure that self-consciousness is repressive, the nonlinear >time of the mind,< the significance of our sensual embodiment or libidinality, and the formation of the repression barrier by the incest taboo) are all closely tied to free-associative experience. By contrast, post-1914 theoretical preoccupations (from object relations to the structural-functional model, and other formulations generated after Freud's life) are comparatively divorced from such experience. These conceptual edifices imply a conventional depiction of the theory–practice relationship, which is radically challenged by free-associative discourse. The notion of praxis is introduced as contesting the prevailing depiction of practice as an application of theory, and as serving to rescue psychoanalysis from the somewhat >sterile debates< over its scientific status and over the relevance of metapsychological speculation to clinical treatment. Against the normative ideology of theory and practice, the lived experience of free-associative discourse, with its potential for change and healing, can only be understood in terms of this notion of praxis, and this justifies Freud's claim to have initiated >a critical new direction in science.<
Frankfurt school started its activity in 1928 by establishing an institute for social research. Some of the theorists of this school are Marcuse, Horkheimer, Adorno, Fromm and Benjamin Habermas. This school considered most of the thoughts and ideas of classical Marxism as incorrect and criticized them. Basically, in this school criticizing the poor condition of the school community has been an important component and art is considered as a medium to make the people aware of these problems. In Iran with the advent of the constitutional (Mashrooteh) movement, literature and art entered a new phase and the poets were committed to criticizing the disorders and social, political and cultural problems. They believed that the art with no benefit for the people’s welfare and improvement of social and political conditions, and not used as a weapon against tyrants, is a worthless art. Thus, the authors in this study made an attempt to investigate these critical ideas in the works of one of the most prominent poets and critics of constitutional (Mashrooteh) era, sayed Ashraf-Al-Din Gilani known as Nasim-e-Shomal, and to determine the critical components in the poems of this renowned Iranian poet.
Atheïsme en religiositeit lijken elkaars absolute tegenpolen. Filosoof Wim Van Moer stelt deze intuïtieve, ook onder atheïsten wijdverspreide overtuiging ter discussie. Deze analyse onthult dat de religieuze ervaring niet verbonden hoeft te zijn met een geloof in een bovennatuurlijke entiteit of realiteit. Geïnspireerd door Leo Apostel en in de voetsporen van William James en Erich Fromm, betoogt de auteur dat deze tegenstrijdigheid, zelfs binnen een radicaal atheïstisch vertoog, niet automatisch geldig is. Van Moer staaft deze stelling met een meeslepende fenomenologische analyse van de religieuze ervaring, die uitmondt in een theoretisch model waarmee hij religieuze ervaringen binnen een atheïstische context kan onderzoeken. [Taken from Publisher’s Website: http://nl.aup.nl/books/9789089644626-atheistische-religiositeit.html]
The author suggests attachment theory as a theoretical framework for psychoanal-ysis, based on ethology, alternative to Freud’s drive model. He points out the affinity between attachment theory and the American interpersonal-cultural approach. He regards psychopathology as due to the thwarting of innate behavioural tendencies due to an unnatural culture.
Šīs kolektīvās monogrāfijas aizsākumi ir rodami 2013. gadā, kad Rīgā notika starptautiska konference >Brīvība un brīvības: iespējas un draudi<. Tā notika sadarbībā ar starptautisko Ēriha Fromma biedrību, tajā piedalījās psihoanalītiķi, filosofi, psihoterapeiti un psihologi no Vācijas, Meksikas un Latvijas. Neatsveramu ieguldījumu šajā konferencē sniedza Rainers Funks, kādreizējais Fromma zinātniskais sekretārs un tagadējais viņa autortiesību pārvaldītājs. Savukārt konferences patronese bija Latvijas eksprezidente Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, kura dalījās savos pieredzējumos saistībā ar Frommu. Tā arī nobrieda ideja par kolektīvo monogrāfiju. Uzreiz visu nav iespējams aptvert, tāpēc šajā darbā uzmanības centrā ir Fromms, kurš skatīts psihoanalīzes, fenomenoloģijas (var arī teikt: filosofijas) kontekstā.
Starting from the concept of confusion of tongues between passion and tenderness, the authors illustrate two clinical situations of traumatized children and adults and try to show how these kinds of patient are not able to give voice to and symbolically represent their archaic anxieties connected with their having been Ferenczian >unwelcome children.< Therefore, in the therapeutic situation, they often make use of the language of >passion< and sexualization in order to communicate to the analyst their early broken intimacy and their traumatized >tenderness,< related to a lack of parental libidinal involvement and of maternal permeability to their raw emotions, which gave rise to their >passion of death.< Sketching out two clinical cases (an adolescent and an adult), the authors describe how, in their opinion, this confusion of tongues may be the only way for some patients to represent and share the traumatic events of their past, while at the same time it may become a deep-rooted, strong, rigid, and exciting defense mechanism against an early child depression connected with devitalizing unconscious identifications.
The International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) was created to achieve an open, plural spirit, not constrained by any single psychoanalytic theory, such that one of its main aims was to >avoid the bureaucratization of its theory.< The IFPS did not intend to turn its back on the statements of early psychoanalysis; instead, it sought to use them as a basis for proposing and developing the theory of psychoanalysis. These same aims and origins served as an inspiration for each of the Latin-American societies that would gain affiliation to IFPS over the years. The Sociedad Psicoanalítica Mexicana AC, under the guidance and representation of Erich Fromm, played a central role in the creation of the IFPS. A brief account of the participation, affiliation, and development of each of the six affiliated Latin-American Societies – from Mexico, Brazil, and Chile – and one Study Group in Argentina will be described.
Die politische Funktion der Gedenkkerzen. Über die Rolle der Juden im Zeitalter des Neoliberalismus
(2014)
Neutrality is a most important concept, yet a controversial one. Theorists of different analytic schools have defined it in their own terms, leaving behind them a legacy of disparate and often contradictory formulations. In this paper, the author reviews briefly some of these ideas about neutrality. Then, from a contemporary interpersonal/relational perspective, the author takes a new look at the idea of neutrality. The author points out how unacknowledged discrepancies among these ideas get in the way of understanding and so complicate analytic discourse, and argues that useful work with this concept requires that analysts differentiate between two aspects of neutrality, specifically operational neutrality and intentional neutrality. The theoretical discussion is followed by a case vignette illustrating the clinical usefulness of this differentiation.
롤즈에 따르면, 거의 정의로운 사회에서의 시민은 예외적인 부정의를 시정하기 위한 항의행동으로서 법을 위반할 수 있다. 그러한 행동은 비폭력적이고 공개적이어야 하고, 불복종자는 법위반의 대가로서 처벌을 감수해야 한다. 반면 당국은 불복종자와 통상적인 범법자를 구별하고 불복종자를 우호적으로 취급해야 한다. 그러나 롤즈의 모형은 현실에서 일반적으로 작동하지 않는다. 핵심적인 문제는 >거의 정의로운 상태<가 개념적으로 명료하지 않으며 내용적으로 충분하지 못하다는 점이다. 또 동일한 정치질서도 계급, 인종, 성, 종교, 세계관에 따라 상이하게 평가될 수밖에 없다. 한편 >거의 정의로운 상태<를 서구 민주주의와 동일시한다면 특정한 정치질서를 특권화하는 문제점도 안고 있다. 나아가 거의 정의로운 상태가 평등한 자유의 원칙이나 공정한 기회의 원칙을 통해서 도달 가능한 체제보다 우월한 정치적 상태라고 상정한다면, 불복종의 이유를 평등한 자유의 원칙과 공정한 기회의 원칙에 대한 심각한 위배에 국한시키는 롤즈의 방침은 불충분하다. 롤즈는 경제적 불평등을 시민불복종의 직접적인 사유로 취급하지 않고 정치적 과정에 맡길 문제로 상정한다. 그러나 경제적 불평등, 빈곤의 심화는 고착된 사회경제적・정치적 권력의 필연적인 결과이므로 불복종의 이유로서 고려되어야 한다. 이 경우 불복종과 저항은 특정한 법과 정책이 아니라 지배 체제에 대한 저항의 성격을 띠게 된다. 신자유주의 체제의 어떤 개별적인 악법이나 나쁜 정책이 문제되는 것이 아니라 체제 전체의 근본적 부정의가 문제되기 때문이다. 롤즈가 <공정으로서 정의: 재진술> 및 <정의론> 수정판에서 제안한 재산소유 민주주의는 복지국가형태보다는 정의로운 정치체제이므로 >거의 정의로운 상태<에 근접한다. 따라서 재산소유 민주주의 체제는 롤즈의 불복종이론이 가동되기 적합한 상태라고 추정할 수 있다. 그밖에 롤즈가 시민불복종의 요건으로 제시한 비폭력성, 법에 대한 충실성으로서 양심성은 본질적으로 저항의 목표 달성이라는 정치적 시각에서 재검토해야 한다. 이러한 목표 달성과 무관한 양심적 비폭력주의는 정치적으로 바람직하지도 않으며 때로는 심각한 파국을 초래할 수 있다. 결국 사회의 근본적 개혁에 대한 열망만이 불복종을 추동하고 정당화한다. 또한 현실세계에서 정치적 권력, 경제적 권력, 문화적 권력은 서로 강고하게 결합되어 하나의 지배체제를 이루고 있으므로 불복종을 특정한 부분에 한정할 수도 없다. 권력이 있는 곳이라면 불복종은 언제나 필요하다. 불복종은 대의제의 결함을 보완하는 것이 아니라 민주주의의 본질적인 부분이자 국민의 주권을 증명하는 행동이다.
This paper explores the change processes that took place in a woman, an ex-prostitute, in the context of psychotherapeutic treatment over a period of over three years. The treatment took place within a relational psychotherapeutic setting influenced by the ideas formulated by Sándor Ferenczi regarding trauma, as well as by his intense involvement with and commitment to his patients, as expressed in his Clinical Diary of 1932 (Ferenczi, 1988). Zoe, the current patient, was a woman born in Latin America who emigrated to Spain at the age of 28 and became trapped, for nearly a decade, in a mesh of prostitution networks. She eventually entered regular psychotherapeutic treatment at the age of 39. Her change process is an example of the mutual influence between the factors of resilience that characterized her and the opportunity for co-creation that the treatment signifies. The marks of the intense traumatic burden of Zoe's history and the rays of sunlight and hope that she is currently experiencing become intermingled in the dreams evoked and brought to the treatment setting. Zoe's capacity for resilience and the potential for founding self-object relations, ethically implied, that therapists can offer construct a scenario that brings back to life the essence of Ferenczi from 1932.
The paper is an attempt to look at the issues of respect for law from the standpoint of Erich Fromm’s philosophical anthropology. In the text I claim that Fromm’s philosophy provides plausible frameworks for interpretation of the results of empirical research on the prestige of law, conducted once by the most famous Polish legal sociologist – Adam Podgórecki. In particular Podgórecki’s thesis about relations between the mode of obeying the law and the personality of a man, as well as his thesis about the existence of two fundamental ways of respecting the law perfectly match the philosophy of the author of Escape from Freedom.
Eden Halt. An Antrim Memoir
(2014)
Debido particularmente a las innovaciones técnicas, estamos siendo, de manera creciente, testigos de un deslinde de la realidad que se refleja en el afán interno por deshacerse de las limitaciones y confines de nuestra propia personalidad, reconstruyendo una nueva. Esta carrera por des-limitar, disolver y desdibujar las fronteras se ve como un rasgo de carácter clave del carácter social orientado por el Ego. La factura de una personalidad sin lindes, sin duda, da como resultado un debilitamiento de habilidades psíquicas tales como el hecho de experimentar al propio yo como una entidad consistente emocionalmente vinculada con uno mismo y con los otros sintiendo los propios afanes, afectos y emociones, y guiarse según las propias normas y valores internalizados. Por último discutiremos el impacto de esta formación de carácter con respecto a las implicancias clínicas y terapéuticas.
Erich Fromm gegen Israel
(2014)
Erich Fromm's Ecological Messianism: The First Biophilia Hypothesis as Humanistic Social Theory
(2014)
Revisiting Erich Fromm’s works provides a theoretical foundation for a comprehensive and normative theory of human–nature relations that contains psychical, social, economic, and ethical components. Fromm’s system of thought was rooted in understanding humanity’s effort to establish meaningful relations with the natural world and how socioeconomic systems mediate this endeavor. His normative theory maintained that society must develop a nondestructive relationship with the environment by fostering and perfecting the human potentiality of biophilia—a thorough love of living beings. He argued that biophilia will not become the prevailing character structure until society is capable of meeting three prerequisites for human flourishing: security, justice, and freedom. Because Fromm’s social–ecological and ethical insights were partially rooted in humanism and Talmudic studies, he forces environmental scholars to rethink the Judeo-Christian and humanistic traditions, two pillars of Western thought often criticized in environmental literature.
Erich Fromm's Social Psychological Theory of Religion: Toward the X-experience and the City of Being
(2014)
Escapes from Freedom: Political Extremism, Conspiracy Theories, and the Sociology of Emotions
(2014)
The boundary concept has been central to discussions on ethics and psychoanalysis over the past few decades. The main distinction has been between less malignant boundary crossings and more harmful violations. More recently, the concept has been criticized as not discriminating between technique and ethics. The author argues that these problems are connected to the way the boundary concept is defined. He suggests that it is specified to indicate a delimitation of an analytic area of conduct. In an analogous manner, an area of ethical conduct is framed by a boundary between ethical and unethical actions in the treatment situation. The analytic area has a narrower limitation than ethics and a stricter articulation of its concept of attitude; not all unanalytic actions are unethical. This simple model of interpersonally specified boundaries allows us to discriminate between different kinds of transgression in analytic work. In addition to violations and crossings, a third instance is described denoting a transgression of the analytic but not the ethical boundary. These can be called boundary stretchings, and are either intended or unintended deviations of method. The slippery slope mechanism of ethical misconduct is an imminent risk if boundary stretchings are ignored and not subject to scrutiny and analysis.
How did psychoanalysis find its way from >traumatic progression< or >precocious maturity,< as described by Ferenczi at the beginning of the 1930s with its background in the >wise baby< phenomenon, to research on resilience? The paper focuses on psychoanalytic approaches to resilience. What was the contribution of ego psychology, object relations and attachment theories, self-psychology, and group experiences to understanding resilience? Results concerning resilience are based on longitudinal studies of early hospitalized or traumatized but >resilient children,< child survivors of genocides, wars, and communal violence, populations of children and adult refugees. The paper shows the different approaches to resilience, from factoral components to views of structures and processes, including the new ideas that place resilience and depletion as phenomena at the two ends of the same continuity of structural dimensions: psychobiological and object relational.
Against the background of a condensed sketch of the psychotherapeutic tradition in Sweden, I indicate my own path to the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS). The 1962 Forum, held in Amsterdam, at which the IFPS was founded, is depicted through a young man's eyes. Some viewpoints are given on the importance of the IFPS's existence. The development of the journal International Forum of Psychoanalysis is also described and commented on.
Celem artykułu jest analiza problemów związanych z działalnością na rzecz ochrony środowiska w świetle metod ochrony przyrody związanych z afektywnym podejściem do zagadnień natury. Artykuł omawia zjawisko >Fuck For Forest<, związane z działalnością międzynarodowej organizacji ekologicznej, pozyskującej środki na wspieranie przedsięwzięć pro-ekologicznych za pomocą pornografii. Działalność grupy ujawnia złożoność przedsięwzięć ekologicznych, obnażając problemy związane z wolontariatem, różnicami kulturowymi, kulturową tożsamością oraz kulturowo uwarunkowanym pojęciem natury. Wskazuje na liczne dylematy związane z biofilią, jakie ujawniają się we współczesnych formach ochrony środowiska.
Foreword
(2014)
Freiheit in der determinierten Weltanschauung. Möglichkeit der Freiheit in der stoischen Philosophie
(2014)
Fromm: Liebe als Kunst
(2014)
A partir de las tesis elaboradas por el psicólogo social Erich Fromm (1977) respecto a los marcos de orientación y devoción que guían parte del comportamiento humano en sociedad, se cons- truye un sistema teórico-metodológico cuyo objeto de estudio, categorías, subcategorías y ejes temáticos derivan en un instrumento denominado: >Cuestionario sobre marcos de orientación ética de estudiantes de la UNED<, el cual se utiliza en el proyecto de investigación de la Cátedra de Teología titulado: >En qué creen los jóvenes? Marcos de orientación ética de estudiantes de la UNED<. Interesa que este instrumento sea una herramienta válida para sondear la orientación ética de la población con que se trabaja en ese proyecto y constituya, además, un aporte novedoso en el área de la investigación social en torno a temáticas similares. Palabras clave: Orientaciones éticas, Erich Fromm, investigación social, estudiantes universitarios.
Funktion und Bedeutung von Vorurteilen und Projektionen für das Leben und Zusammenleben der Menschen
(2014)
The aim of this paper is to show how the life, personality, and scientific work of Gaetano Benedetti and Johannes Cremerius shaped the original form and structure of the Milan Associazione di Studi Psicoanalitici (ASP), which they founded together with their pupils in 1971 and which became a member society of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) in 1989. The training analysis was substituted by a personal analysis to be finished before the beginning of the training proper; group supervision had and still has as much importance as individual supervision; transference and countertransference analysis are fundamental dimensions of both psychoanalysis and psychotherapy; and psychoanalysis can survive only in a context of interdisciplinary dialogue, empirical research, and social commitment. The author thinks that all these ingredients, which Benedetti and Cremerius contributed to the life of the Milan Scuola di Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica and ASP, could represent important resources, as far as the future of the IFPS is concerned.
Gefühls(leben). Wie sollte ich sein oder wer bin ich wirklich. Typecript, Berlin 2014, 151 pp.
(2014)
Gesetz und Evangelium. Antijudaistische Vorurteile und Projektionen in der (evangelischen) Theologie
(2014)
Many relational analysts believe that hope and despair make up a dynamic dialectic underlying all human development, and therapeutic change is created in the space between them. Twelve years have passed since I presented the case of Dana at the International Sẚpndor Ferenczi Conference in Israel. Since that time, there have been more International Ferenczi's conferences. In the intervening years, I began to rethink Dana's case from a different perspective. Simultaneously, I was trying to make new sense of the then-described >temporary< emotional upheaval I had thought I left behind. In this process of reflection, I realized not only that I was as resistant as Dana to surrendering to my despair, but also that this resistance on my part led to an impasse and might have closed some possibilities for Dana in dealing with severe trauma. This newly found emotional awareness has helped to transform my work with subsequent trauma patients. Through >getting into mud,< to use my patient Gary's words, I was no longer afraid of regressing to a place where despair ruled the day. In this way, my patient and I discovered that genuine hope could be sustained.
Ievads jeb Fromms un Latvija
(2014)
In his approach, Igor A. Caruso, one of the founders of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies, started with a traditional Christian anthropological view on human development. His early conception of psychosocial disturbances described the loss of cognitive and social ability as a loss of orientation on the objective values of human responsibility and attachment. Caruso later transformed his views on neurosis into a concept of individual alienation of transcendence. In the 1960s, he conceived psychosocial development as an ongoing individual dealing with the social and collective alienation of human nature, life, and work. The process of becoming a cultural person obliges the ego to face its individual unconscious drive demands, as well as the unconscious demands of society. Caruso's stays in Latin America – especially in Brazil and Mexico – caused him to reinforce the interference of materialistic theories on socialization with the psychoanalytic knowledge of individual unconscious dynamics. He understood the psychoanalytic situation as a ‘micro-social model’ that symbolizes the collective and the individual alienated conditions. In the 1970s, Caruso's conception was understood as a Freudo-Marxist point of view on alienated psychosocial reality. With his view on psychoanalytic treatment as a dialectic and relational process, Caruso demanded a psychoanalytical responsibility within collective changes.
The author traces the profile of psychoanalyst Igor Caruso, one of the founders of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies, an alternative institution to the dogmatic International Psychoanalytic Association. She comments on his first visit to Brazil in 1956, and his longer stay in 1968/69 in Belo Horizonte, where he helped to consolidate the then newborn Círculo Psicanalítico de Minas Gerais, as well as taking part in the foundation of Círculo Brasileiro de Psicanálise. Caruso was also important in the creation of other circles of psychoanalysis in Latin America. The article presents his psychoanalytic ideas, especially about personalization and the permanent dialectic influence of socialization, still emphasizing his human qualities.
Institutt for Psykoterapi: background and developments of the Institute for Psychotherapy in Norway
(2014)
The Institutt for Psykoterapi is a nationwide training institution offering postgraduate studies in psychoanalytic psychotherapy for physicians and psychologists. It is also a membership society aiming at safeguarding and disseminating the psychoanalytically oriented perspective in mental health care. The Institute was founded in October 1962 as a result of cooperation between the psychologists Einar Dannevig and Per Mentzen and the psychiatrist Endre Ugelstad. At that time, the only systematic training in psychotherapy for physicians and psychologists in this country was provided by the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society. The training took place in Oslo alone, the teaching capacity was limited, and only psychoanalysis was taught. It is a demanding form of treatment that many patients with mental disorders are unable to carry through. The great majority of patients in institutions needed other forms of psychotherapy, but there was at that time no systematic training for this purpose. In a letter of recommendation for the foundation, Harald Schjelderup, professor of psychology, described the prevailing poor conditions for training in psychotherapy: >Training in psychotherapy in our country has been both sparse and poorly organized. There is no institution at the moment which can offer physicians and psychologists a sufficient basis for an independent practice of depth psychologically oriented psychotherapy for adults. Neither does it appear that any of the existing institutions will be able to take on this task for a long time to come.<
This paper explores psychosocially the intergenerational transmission of aspects of working-class masculinities through the shaming, embarrassment, and bullying of young unemployed men, when faced with taking up service work they describe as >embarrassing< and >feminine.< The context is the closure of a steelworks in a town in the South Wales valleys, in which the men's resistance to service work is mediated by father–son relationships that dictate what counts as proper manly work. In this study, young men, as well as their mothers and (where possible) their fathers, were interviewed. The interviews reveal a community suffering the effects of intergenerational trauma and riven with complex feelings about masculinity and femininity. These feelings are projected onto the young men, who feel bullied and shamed by their families, peers, and others in the community because they are unable to find gender-appropriate work. The implications of these findings for understandings of youth male unemployment are considered.