http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/reaction-formation Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:07:30 -0400 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:07:30 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/21/machismo-and-the-reaction-formation-of-the-mexican-man By Scott Berghegger - Américo Paredes, in his 1971 article “The United States, Mexico, and Machismo” (Marcy Steen, trans.), defines the macho as “the superman of the multitude,” a “national type” by which Mexico, as a nation, is often classified (Paredes 215). Through this decidedly folklorist definition, Paredes makes machismo out to be an aspiration handed down from generation to generation of Mexicans in the laments of songs “addressed to a woman who has gone away with another man ‘who is no doubt more of a man than I am’” (215-216). There is no... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:09 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/21/machismo-and-the-reaction-formation-of-the-mexican-man