STAY-AT-HOME DADS: Emerging Potentials in the Father Archetype
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
As our bonds to historic roles loosen, fathers are finding new ways to express themselves within the family dynamic. In 2014 Pew Research Center identified two million stay-at-home-dads in the United States. Those men tell us that tending their children is more rewarding than chasing a paycheck. Being liberated from the hunter-gatherer role has allowed more men to incarnate aspects of the Father archetype infrequently seen since the industrial revolution. Being caregiver and homecreator does not diminish their experience of masculinity but rallies inner resources that had been set aside. Despite the national call for a redistribution of family duties and liberation from traditional paradigms, at-home dads face isolation, suspicion, and stigma.
Historically, as father’s left the home to work at factories and offices, their presence in the family psyche dimmed. Children often lost touch with the significance of their fathers, and family courts consistently relegated them to providers of income. Poet Robert Hayden captures this ambivalence and regret in his poem Those Winter Sundays.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 0:03.0 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Martiano, |
| 0:07.0 | Debra Stewart and Joseph Lee invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation |
| 0:12.0 | that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Lisa Martiano and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Debra Stewart, a Jungian analyst and Cape Cod. |
| 0:37.0 | Today our dear friend Deb is away to conference, |
| 0:40.0 | so Lisa and I will be manning the podcast. |
| 0:43.0 | We've decided to talk about stay at home dads and the evolving role of the father. |
| 0:50.0 | As we experiment with reimagining all kinds of roles and gender persona, |
| 0:56.0 | fathers discover non-traditional positions within the family structure. |
| 1:02.0 | I've had more and more stay at home dads show up in my private practice. |
| 1:07.0 | They say as well, this reflects an interesting and important evolution |
| 1:14.0 | of how we conceptualize the father and I would submit, |
| 1:19.0 | mediates emerging aspects of the father archetype. |
| 1:25.0 | Father as caregiver and home creator. |
| 1:31.0 | Well, of course this is kind of up for me because as I think everyone knows at this point, |
| 1:38.0 | I recently wrote a book on motherhood and I spent years writing that book |
| 1:43.0 | and thinking about the psychological experience of being a mother |
| 1:48.0 | and how did that differ from being a father. |
| 1:50.0 | I don't address that in the book but it certainly was something that I gave some thought to |
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