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The Work-Consumed Father

6/6/2014

 
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"The work-consumed father is an absent father in the psychical sense. This gives the maternal process an unnatural preference in the development  of the child, not inferred by biology.  This new time-equation involving the duration of time spent by mother and father is not supported by the genetic code because over millions of years, father had always spent, comparatively, more time with children than he does now."

"The condition of an overworked father, an equivalent of an absent father, generates a fantasy process which attempts retrieval of the father from the work situation."

From Psycheye by Akhter Ahsen


Image Exercise

1. See that you want father to come home to play with you.
2. See that the father has left his job for good and he has come to stay at home with you.
3. He has kicked the job for good to be with you forever.
4. See that father likes to be with you and play with you at home.
5. Enjoy the feeling of being with him.  See yourself doing many things with father in the home.

6. Do not let ideas of his work interfere with the pleasure of the image.
7. Relax and see the two of you playing together.  See that the mother does not interfere in your play at all.
8.
See the playfulness and forgiveness of the image as you do things in the home with father.
9. Go around outside the home with him, exploring the world, such as trees and lakes.
10. Return home and do things with him inside the home.
11. Enjoy father's company.  He is no longer going to work.  He has kicked the work habit.







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