The Apple of my Ire

                       I'm finding it difficult to find any 'beginning' for a `beginning` .    Psychiatrists and Psychologists agree with, "The apple does NOT fall far from the tree", meaning, a son learns how to comport himself around women from his father .   From this we can extrapolate :  If the father is fucked-up, [then] so it will be with the son .   ANY Study of the Male Psyche should begin with Dr. Erik H. Erikson's  Childhood and Society "The Landmark Work On The Social Significance Of Childhood" .   Here ,  Chapter  8  is of   MONUMENTAL {man-you--MENTAL} :    "Reflections on the American Identity" .   Here is a taste from it :  "All countries, and especially large ones, complicate their own progress in their own way with the premises of their beginnings .   We must try and formulate the way in which self-contradictions in American History may expose her youth to an emotional and political short-circuit and thus endanger her dynamic potential ."   {p. 287 Norton Publishing} .