Father, daughter & the fish

In an exercise during the first module I wrote the following story: 

A family is on holiday in France. They are camping on a campingsite near a big lake. Onw dy hen the father is fishing, the eldest daugher asks him of she can try. The fther tells her it is a tough man job, but he will learn it to her. He explaikns her how to use the fishing rod and they try it the first time together. It seems like a serious job.
When she pulls it out by herself, he tells her that is she catches a fish she has to take it off the hook herself. 'That is how it works when you catch your first fish.' After a while she feels there is something tearing the rope. She is excited, gets it in and there is indeed a fish at the end of the rope. She gets it closer and closer, but the closer it comes the more scared she gets. She shouts to her father: 'Daddy, I can't do it, I don't want to take the fish off.
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'You have to', replies the father, 'it's your fish, your responsibility.' The girl tries to get the fish with her hands, but it glides away and she cannot get a grip on it. She's scared. Her father tells her: 'You have to persist. You can't let the fish die cause of your own fear. You have to go on, you can't give up. Show your strength. Come back to us when you have it off.' Then he walks away. The girl keeps on trying and trying. She's in panic. Then the fish stops moving. She looks at it for a while. It's dead. She takes it in her hands and whispers: 'I am sorry'. The she grabs the hook and tears it forceful from the mouth. A piece from the fish comes loose from the rest of the body. It's ripped apart. She walks back to the tents, her family already started dinner. She gives the fish to her father. He looks at the fish, than at her. 'What did you do to it? That is not the way to get the hook off'. And he throws the fish away.

There is, most likely, unconscious behaviour from the father, that does not allow his daughter to grow.
The daughter wants to step into another 'world', something from the world from her father. She wants to try something new, a 'tough man job'. Does she seek male qualities within herself? Her wild side? The wild feminine?
The father does not seems to want to fulfil his role, he seems to want that the daughter fails. The father does not give access to his world, the world of men.


Is there a desire to start a dialogue with a strong voice within me? With 'the father' within myself?

This writing is also from that period:

sooner or later

sooner or later she will come and get me
with this wolf I have to go
alone she will never travel
if only I could run as fast as she does
her fur is dark, her eyes too
I love her, not her master
he locks us up
takes away our light from our eyes
they become black holes
our skin is dripping from our bones
melts together into a sticky lava layer
penetrates the bars of the door
and warms up to take over power
overpowering the man


'Her master locks us up.'
'Overpowering the man'

The man is too strong, his presence too much. He needs to be overpowered. Is this about the strong male quality inside?

The pain in oneself comes from the domination of one principle

Thomas Prattki

In my IMPP journey the archetype of the tyrant became visible. This presence in me, in my animus had been alive for a long time, but had been invisible to me.
What could be my task there? To cut down the animus to size by enhancing and encourgaging the feminine. This process started naturally, enhanced by IMPP.

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