{"id":48,"date":"2004-05-06T15:42:49","date_gmt":"2004-05-06T19:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2004\/05\/06\/paternal-instinct\/"},"modified":"2004-05-06T15:42:49","modified_gmt":"2004-05-06T19:42:49","slug":"paternal-instinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2004\/05\/06\/paternal-instinct\/","title":{"rendered":"paternal instinct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a32'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; In this dream, I am introduced to my son. Curiously, he&#8217;s not a<br \/>\nnewborn infant but appears to be already several months old. Cute kid;<br \/>\nthe tenderness I feel toward him is genuine, deep and different than<br \/>\nwhat I&#8217;ve felt toward anyone else but falls far short of unalloyed<br \/>\nelation. I wonder what I can do to guide this lad to a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">eudaimon<\/span><br \/>\nadulthood. The length of the task weighs on me; I think I doubt my<br \/>\nresourcefulness. The mother is a respectable looking brown haired<br \/>\nwoman; I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m married to her in the dream but, in any<br \/>\ncase, she doesn&#8217;t play any significant part. Even in the dream, I<br \/>\nrecall the claim Sarah repeated, that one is always overcome with<br \/>\naffection for one&#8217;s child upon sight and feel a twinge of sadness that<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t have that response.<br \/>\n&nbsp; Was this an unsuccessful compensatory dream? Or is my<br \/>\nsubconscious telling me that the Ice Queen&#8217;s rejection hasn&#8217;t<br \/>\nforeclosed certain life choices but simply , shall we say, emptied them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In this dream, I am introduced to my son. Curiously, he&#8217;s not a newborn infant but appears to be already several months old. Cute kid; the tenderness I feel toward him is genuine, deep and different than what I&#8217;ve felt toward anyone else but falls far short of unalloyed elation. I wonder what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1500],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}