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In 1998 I wrote a short essay about how being a father helped me inch beyond some conventions of American manhood, particularly the pressure to excel at work and to dominate at home. I had been a father for 17 years, and the experience made me realize how much my own private Oedipus complex had shaped my sensibility. “On Learning Not to Love the Oedipus Complex” appeared that year in The Family Track, edited by Constance Coiner and Diana Hume George. Fifteen years later, when the editors of this book asked me to revisit that essay, I discovered that I had more to unlearn.
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© 2014 Àngels Carabí and Josep M. Armengol
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Leverenz, D. (2014). On Learning Not to Love the Oedipus Complex, Revisited. In: Carabí, À., Armengol, J.M. (eds) Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World. Global Masculinities. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137462565_6
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