[4/12] Violence | Season 1:Origins Recap
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[4/12] Violence | Season 1:Origins Recap
📖 Maskat has to face his dad's wrath 🎤 Khaled shares how it felt to do that in real life 🧐 Omar further dissects the father archetype
Did your dad ever beat you up? What is your relationship with aggression? Can you imagine a world without it? Is it a natural part of the masculine energy?
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READ 📖 CHAPTER 4 : Taurus Strikes
LISTEN 🎤 S1EP04. Aggression with Khaled Sallam 🇪🇬
REFLECT 🧐 The Father Archetype Writer’s Commentary
📖 CHAPTER 4 : Taurus strikes
Maskat goes back late and his father feels like he needs to teach him a lesson. Things get a little out of hand. Literally.
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🎤 S1Ep04. Aggression with Khaled Sallam 🇪🇬
Omar interviews his best friend, Khaled . This hearty, vulnerable and open conversation invites us to reconsider male aggression and uncover its routes. They go on to imagine what a world would look like without it, and also talk about their raw experiences in fighting as kids and how violence and aggression also came naturally to them.
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🧐 Writer’s Commentary | The Father Archetype
The Father archetype takes the form of God, any god, giant, tyrant, king, judge, doctor, executioner, devil, leader, holy man, boss, wise old man, and of course, father. As with any archetype, both light and dark aspects exist.
The positive aspect of the Father principle suggests law, order, discipline, rationality, understanding and inspiration. When our inner authority figure is supportive, dreams bring capable, benevolent and helpful kings, firefighters, healers and guides.
The shadow Father emerges when the caring guidance and protection turns into abuse of authority. The negative Father archetype involves rigidity, control and a cold intellectual way of relating. This leads to ego and intellectual inflation and a state of hubris.