He explored the issue of sexual politics by rewriting Casanova's memoirs, revealing the masculine ego to be a fragile construct, "conditioned in every way by the partner."

The Ego section is separate between the feminine ego (represented by Penelope) and the masculine ego (represented by Benji).

Listening to this outpouring of the collective masculine ego, this litany of distortion, made Daniella ill.

What a blow you've dished up to my masculine ego!

"I wish I could say, to satisfy my masculine ego, that I led her down this path," he said in a 1967 interview.

He wasn't, after all, a young boy whose emerging masculine ego had to be protected, and when 1 beat him he would probably change his mind over the way he felt about me.

But she'd never tell the detectives what she had guessed; it would bruise their masculine egos.

He'd managed to stay away from here for a year - leaning on his wounded masculine ego, true, fearful he'd find Jenny married . . . lost to him forever.

The intervention of witnesses and lawyers exposed the intimacies of the home in public, inviting rebuttals from the husband, whose authority and masculine ego were challenged.