Guy Corneau's path to becoming a psychoanalyst was unconventional, initially rooted in theater where he wrote, performed, and directed. After earning a master's degree, he pursued further training at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He transitioned from private practice to public outreach, sharing his insights through lectures and extensive tours globally. Corneau authored five bestselling books that delve into themes such as absent fathers and their sons, male-female relationships, the meaning of suffering, and the impact of unconscious conditioning on personal growth. His work offers profound explorations of the human psyche and pathways to self-discovery and fulfillment.
In the tradition of Thomas Moore, Jungian analyst and lecturer Guy Corneau delivers a hopeful message that will help us move beyond the gender wars to a new era of personal fulfillment. With engaging anecdotes and mythical references, he instructs us to look into ourselves and create our own guiding principles. He then suggests how we can achieve our aspirations through meaningful relationships with those who challenge us to test and fulfill them.
A Jungian analyst examines masculine identity and the psychological repercussions of ‘fatherlessness’—whether literal, spiritual, or emotional—in the baby boom generation An experience of the fragility of conventional images of masculinity is something many modern men share. 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. 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 initiation rituals that in the past ensured a boy’s passage into manhood. In his engaging examination of the many different ways this missing link manifests in men's lives, Corneau shows that, for men today, regaining the essential “second birth” into manhood lies in gaining the ability to be a father to themselves—not only as a means of healing psychological pain, but as a necessary step in the process of becoming whole.
