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...recovery tone can trap you into being a child," says Bly. "The myth honors your suffering; it gives images of an adult manhood that you will not meet in your community. It takes you out of your victimhood...
...latest addition to the maleness canon is Sam Keen's Fire in the Belly (Bantam; 272 pages; $19.95), which is beginning what may be a long residence on the best-seller lists. While Bly provides the pragmatic poetry of contemporary manhood, Keen offers some poetic pragmatism. His book does not so much compete with Bly's as complement it, offering the yin of personal experience to Bly's yang of mythological precedent...
Fire in the Belly is that rare thing: a literate and lyrical self-help book. Like Bly, who uses a Grimm brothers' myth as his framework, Keen takes up the ancient theme that each man is on a spiritual journey, a quest for the grail of manhood. Bly's book is an original song of the road, a literary Walkman piping background music for the journey. Keen attempts to provide a rough road map for the trip, advising the spiritual traveler how to avoid the dead ends of combative machismo and the blind alleys of romantic obsession...
...California, becoming a contributing editor to Psychology Today. Over the past 20 years he has been conducting seminars on personal mythology. Fire in the Belly is his 12th book, and he regards it as another effort in his lifelong exploration of modern mythology, in this case, the mythology of manhood...
...event, the most expansive definitions of rape include psychological coercion, which raises the question, Couldn't a woman emotionally pressure a man to have sex, by, for instance, impugning his manhood if he refused, and thus be guilty of rape...