On fathers, writing, and dreams

and writing about dreams, and dreams about fathers

As I write this, my partner approaches me and asks, “What are you writing?”

I answer vaguely, “I’m writing about dreams… but also about real life!”

To which he replies: “They’re the same, aren’t they?”

That’s what the Jungians claim. The psyche seeks, and without fail always finds, anything that will push us into consciousness—in real life and in dreams al…