- Men’s lives are as much governed by restrictive role expectations as are the lives of women
- Men’s lives are essentially governed by fear
- The power of the feminine is immense in the psychic economy of men
- Men collude in a conspiracy of silence whose aim is to suppress their emotional truth
- Because men must leave Mother, and transcend the Mother complex, wounding is necessary
- Men’s lives are violent because their souls have been violated
- Every man carries a deep longing for his father and tribal elders
- If men are to heal, they must activate what they did not receive from without
James Hollis – Under Saturn’s Shadow – the Wounding and Healing of Men (1994)
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