I have reviewed psychoanalytic contributions on nurturance in boys and men—issues related to the problem of male sexuality in general. Freud emphasized the "negative" oedipal aspects of wishes to bear and rear babies, their regressive and passive implications. Successive generations of analysts have discovered the active, progressive dimensions of procreative strivings. They have underscored womb and breast envy, envy of maternal power; identification with the mother as a means of recreating the lost relationship with her and of building one's own ego identity; the need for a developmental perspective in pursuing the dramatic changes in a boy's procreative, productive, and caring attitudes and desires. I have closed by sketching such a scheme, hypothesizing successive stages in the epigenesis of paternal identity. The thrust of this review is to demonstrate, first, that "maternal" or, better, parental aspirations are organic, indeed organizing components in the evolution of male identity and, second, that there exists a substantial, though neglected history of psychoanalytic thought to this effect.