Freud's Beasty Boys: Sex, Violence and Masculinity

by Oxana Timofeeva

This book examines violence and sexuality after Freud. Its characters, though, are not women and men, but rather animals and children. Focusing on three famous Freudian cases in which little boys had issues with animals - Little Hans, The Rat Man, and the Wolf Man - it revises the role played by animals in male gender socialization.

Timofeeva demonstrates the relevance of psychoanalysis for anyone who wants to understand how patriarchy works,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509568417
• ISBN13: 9781509568413
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 130 Pages