This book presents the first in-depth study of online misogyny and the manosphere from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Jacob Johanssen is Senior Lecturer in Communications, St. Mary's University (London). His research interests include psychoanalysis and digital media, audience research, sexuality and digital media, affect theories, psychosocial studies and critical theory. He is co-editor of the Counterspace section of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and a founder scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC).

Series Preface

Preface by Klaus Theweleit

Acknowledgments

Content Warning

Glossary

Introduction: A Psychoanalysis of the Manosphere

1. Male Fascist Bodies - Then and Now

2. The Sexual Revolution, the Manosphere and (Post)Feminism

3. The Backlash against the Sexual Revolution on YouTube

4. Incels and Fantasies of Destroying/Desiring the Other

5. Men Going Their Own Way - MGTOW: Woman shall (not) Exist

6. The Manifestos of Mass Shooters and the Absent Father

7. NoFap: Masturbation, Porn and Phallic Fragility

Conclusion: From Dis/Inhibition to Recognition - A Space for Hope?

Bibliography

Index