Arguing that psychoanalysis is both a modernist and a postmodernist discourse, the authors look first at the phallocentric oedipal narrative that positions all male subjects in particular ways. They then seek bodily and discursive practices that would disrupt phallic, homogenizing masculinity. Many feminists have discussed the way oedipal narrative positions man as subject, woman as obstacle/other. Here the authors focus on the father's wish to kill the son and the demand that he repress this wish if the species is to continue. The oedipus narrative represents masculinity as a trajectory from one ineluctable act of violence (repressed infanticide) to the next (repressed patricide). In the authors' Lacanian framework, a key task is to examine why culture routinely obscures the distinction between the penis and the phallus, thus allowing the male subject to deny the reality of