An experience of the fragility of conventional images of masculinity is something many modern men share.
Why is this feeling so profound in the lives of the postwar ``baby boom`` generation-men who are now approaching middle age? Because, he says, this generation marks a critical phase in the loss of the Masculine init.
Psychoanalyst Guy Corneau traces this experience to an even deeper feeling men have of their fathers\' silence or absence-sometimes literal, but especially emotional and spiritual.
An experience of the fragility of conventional images of masculinity is something many modern men share