ABSTRACT
One way to frame the overall process of what the Invisible Storyteller (IS) does is as a continual process of asking the ego "who are you?". The way it attempts to answer this question is by telling stories: lots of them and continuously. The meaning of a dream will emerge out of the whole-cloth picture of all the parts of which it is composed, all working together as a coherent unit. Story tellers use this fact in constructing their stories, but the reason it works is because the meaning of a story. Integration is the goal we are after. This chapter discusses the dream of the violent step-father, which is far more integrated: even the disturbing and repulsive elements have their place in the overall story of the ego heroically standing up for his sister against an insurmountable enemy, where getting hurt wound up attracting the attention of the authorities and helped bring an end to the suffering.
