Guy Corneau

Canadian Jungian analyst who wrote Absent Fathers, Lost Sons — the most widely read Jungian analysis of masculine psychology and the father wound — and who survived cancer, later writing about the experience (Reviving Your Life, The Secret Language of the Body).

Articulated the 'absent father' as the defining wound of contemporary masculinity — when the father is physically or emotionally absent, the son cannot differentiate from the mother complex and develop his own masculine identity — contributing to the Jungian psychology of masculinity alongside Robert Bly's Iron John.