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Marie-Louise von Franz | 288 pages | 06 Mar 2000 | Inner City Books | 9780919123885 | English | Toronto, Canada The Puer Aeternus and the Trap of Freedom and Independence

Join Goodreads. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Ordinary sick people follow ordinary patterns, but the shaman cannot be cured by the usual methods of healing. He has to find the unique way, the only way that applies to him. Wikipedia Wiktionary Shop. Puer Aeternus is Latin for eternal child , used in mythology to designate a child-god who is forever young; psychologically it refers to an older man whose emotional life has remained at an adolescent level, usually coupled with too great a dependence on the mother. The puer typically leads a provisional life, due to the fear of being caught in a situation from which it might not be possible to escape. He covets independence and freedom, chafes at boundaries and limits, and tends to find any restriction intolerable. In the poem Ovid addresses the child-god as puer aeternus and praises him for his role in the Eleusinian mysteries. Iacchus is later identified with the gods and . The puer is a god of vegetation and resurrection, the god of divine youth, such as Tammuz , and . The figure of a young god who is slain and resurrected also appears in Egyptian mythology as the story of Osiris , and is said to be symbolized in Christianity by the figure of Christ. Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung developed a school of thought called analytical , distinguishing it from the of - In often called "Jungian psychology" the puer aeternus is an example of what Jung called an , one of the "primordial, structural elements of the human psyche". The of the puer is the senex Latin for "old man" , associated with the god Apollo --disciplined, controlled, responsible, rational, ordered. Conversely, the shadow of the senex is the puer , related to Dionysus --unbounded instinct, disorder, intoxication, whimsy. Like all the puer is bi-polar, exhibiting both a "positive" and an "negative" aspect. The "positive" side of the puer appears as the Divine Child who symbolizes newness, potential for growth, hope for the future. He also foreshadows the hero that he sometimes becomes e. The "negative" side is the child-man who refuses to grow up and meet the challenges of life face on, waiting instead for his ship to come in and solve all his problems. When the subject is a female the Latin term is puella aeterna , imaged in mythology as the Kore Greek for "maiden". One might also speak of a puer animus when describing the masculine side of the female psyche, or a puella anima when speaking of a man's inner feminine component. Jung Institute, Zurich, during the Winter Semester, The Problem of the Puer Aeternus by Marie-Louise von Franz

As the years roll by, the puer becomes more and more unable to deal with life, and may take refugee in drugs, alcohol or strange behavior, become a member of a cult, or run from one mother figure to the next, ever growing weary from his lack of purpose. If he is lucky, he will find enough trauma to shake him from his slumber and break the spell of his identification long enough to get a glimpse of himself. While trouble and waste of energy can be attributed to those lost in the puer archetype, it has a great advantage for those who can balance it with a disciplined intellect and love for their fellows. The puer's creative energy is behind most accomplishments in art and philosophy, and brings light and song into the drab world of work and decay. As Nicoll pointed out, the divine child within is our intermediary with the eternal realm. He can see both worlds and will shows us the inner one if we wish. The intellect may play its part in manifestation and discipline, but it cannot travel out of the mind, into the realm of the unmanifest, the puer's home. He is merely the archetype of the eternal-youth god, and therefore he has all the features of the god: he has a nostalgic longing for death; he thinks of himself as being something special; he is the one sensitive being among all the other tough sheep. He will have a problem with an aggressive, destructive shadow which he will not want to live and generally projects, and so on. There is nothing special about him whatsoever. The worse the identification with the youthful god, the less individual the person, although he himself feels so special. Puer Aeternus: Wikipedia. Latin for eternal child, used in mythology to designate a child-god who is forever young; psychologically it refers to an older man whose emotional life has remained at an adolescent level, usually coupled with too great a dependence on the mother. Puer Aeternus, The Eternal Boy, The Seer: "In a revolt against "the earthly, the conservative, the possessive", he may begin a long ascent into a flight upward and become the ascending son, the Peter or "eternal boy," the moth "mad for the light. Trap: Caught in an ideal. We may think because we believe in an ideal such as the betterment of our fellow man that we are somehow automatically above the fray, that our every action is justified, because the means justifies the end for the chosen few. Trick: Walking the walk. The above thinking will quickly lead everything we do into building up the ego, and keep us from noticing the difference between our ideals and our actions. If we live the life we believe, we must have no glaring contradictions between what we say and tell others, and what we ourselves do. Self-honesty can go a long way in showing us how our fact status and our story may be two very different things. The shock of seeing this could go a long way in waking us up. Progress on the spiritual path can be thought of in terms of value, or love. What is most important to us is what we value the most, what we really love. The path of self-discovery can be seen in these terms. We observe ourselves, and discover what our true motivations are, leading us to see what we value. Another way to see this is by checking our fact status. What we actually do everyday tells us much about what we value, and perhaps shows us the gap between our personal storyline and our actions. If this fact checking and self-observation are carried far enough, we may begin to get a look at something called our 'self' or personality, and begin to see its illusive nature. We may be forced to admit to its exalted status as our real true love, despite our ego's protestations to the contrary. Using this shock as further fuel for the search, we become a bit more honest in our future assessments. The assumption in all of these passages is that human sexuality has a natural course of development, and that success has a single end point, mature heterosexuality. If homosexuality was seen as just an immature stage of development, then there is also an implicit belief that with proper analysis, the trajectory of sexual maturity can be restarted and the homosexual client can be cured. The LGBTQ analysand is not supported in developing a healthy life as a queer person, a goal a therapist would know to pursue today. It should be noted that these examples are also a microcosm of the discussions going on in the larger world of psychology at the time. Thankfully, these theories about homosexuality are being definitively disproven. Gay men have long described a general feeling of being different that started at a young age, and many parents of gay children tell me they suspected their children were gay from as young as age two. Biological research is also teaching us that sexual orientation is biologically innate, constitutional, and fixed. Psychological research demonstrates that attempts to change sexual orientation inevitably fail, and the attempts themselves are psychologically damaging to subjects of change efforts. None of the people cited here were what we would call homophobic today. Relative to the standards of their time, each was in fact fairly progressive and accepting. Many believe that von Franz may have been a lesbian or in a relationship with her long term friend and housemate. Still, Jungian psychology should be more explicit in addressing and correcting past mistakes. Post-Jungian analysts unwittingly played a role in promoting stereotypes and degrading the mental health and well being of LGBTQ people. His lot is seldom what he really wants and one day he will do something about it — but not just yet. Plans for the future slip away in fantasies of what will be, what could be, while no decisive action is taken to change. He covets independence and freedom, chafes at boundaries and limits, and tends to find any restriction intolerable. For this he would need a faithless Eros , one capable of forgetting his mother and undergoing the pain of relinquishing the first love of his life. Common symptoms of puer psychology are dreams of imprisonment and similar imagery: chains, bars, cages, entrapment, bondage. Life itself, existential reality, is experienced as a prison. Puer Aeternus - individunification (mirror)

One might also speak of a puer animus when describing the masculine side of the female psyche, or a puella anima when speaking of a man's inner feminine component. Jung Institute, Zurich, during the Winter Semester, Of this novel von Franz says:. Now or is a book written by Jungian analyst Ann Yeoman dealing with the puer aeternus in the form of . The book is a psychological overview of the eternal boy archetype, from its ancient roots to contemporary experience, including a detailed interpretation of J. Barrie 's popular novel and play. is a pop-psychology term used to describe an adult who is socially immature. Dan Kiley. Kiley also wrote a companion book, The Wendy Dilemma , published in Peter Pan syndrome is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , and is not yet recognized by the American Psychiatric Association as a . Bashir said, "No, you're Michael Jackson". Jackson then stated, "I'm Peter Pan in my heart". Jackson named his former home " Neverland Ranch ". Neverland is the fantasy island in the story of Peter Pan, where children never grow up. Jump to: navigation , search. Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Puer aeternus" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License ; or on original research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice. Views Article Discussion Edit History. Metas Rss feed Twitter. Seller Inventory CIN More information about this seller Contact this seller 4. Condition: GOOD. Has little wear to the cover and pages. Contains some markings such as highlighting and writing. More information about this seller Contact this seller 5. Condition: acceptable. Moderate to heavy notes, marking, highlighting, noticeable wear and tear, worn covers, crease pages. More information about this seller Contact this seller 6. Published by Inner City Books, Canada Soft cover. Condition: As New. Other types of mail are available on request. We are an international bookstore. We sell our books worldwide. More information about this seller Contact this seller 7. Published by Spring About this Item: Spring, Third printing, Text is clean and unmarked. Good copy. Ships Fast! Satisfaction Guaranteed!. Seller Inventory mon More information about this seller Contact this seller 8. Satisfaction Guaranteed! Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. More information about this seller Contact this seller 9. About this Item: Condition: good. Book shows some signs of wear from use, but is a good readable copy. Cover in excellent condition. Binding tight. Pages in great shape, no tears. More information about this seller Contact this seller Condition: New. Book is in NEW condition.

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Home Price Comparison More search options. Stock Photo. Used acceptable paperback. Isle Books. Seller rating : This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers. Show Details Description:. Add to cart Buy Now Item Price. Used as new Paperback. Seller rating : This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers. New Paperback. Used good paperback. Seller rating : This seller has earned a 1 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers. Used good. I think this myth should always be told when the hero has to cut the tree, because that is always what he does not want to realize, or believe. If he only knew how much wider life would be if the could give up that wrong kind of inner life, then he might perhaps do it. O ne Day. I am only taking an extract. He says:. People comfort themselves, not only because they do not really do something but also for not making any preparation for what they have to do, because for such things there are plenty of time and therefore there is no need to hurry. Such a mechanism is illustrated by the case of a very gifted writer who wanted to write a book which he though would be the most important book in world literature, but he did not do more than have a few ideas as to what he would write and enjoy in fantasy what the effect of his book would be and tell his friends that he had not nearly finished it. In reality he had not even written a single line, not a single word; though, according to him, he had already worked for seven years on it. In certain people the reaching of a certain age, generally at the beginning of the forties, brings a sobering effect so that they then begin to use their own forces, or there is a neurotic breakdown which is based upon the fact that one cannot live if one does not have that comforting time illusion. But then he cannot let them go. He just sits there, waiting and hoping for the experience to come back, and the more one sits and waits the less it can approach consciousness again because it is the essence of these experiences that they always come in a new form. The experience of the Self does not repeat itself, but generally turns up again at those desperate moments when one does not look for it any more. It has turned completely in another direction and suddenly again stands before you in a different form. That would be a contradiction of its very essence. It is the same, for instance, with positive love or feeling experiences. People who make childish demands on other people every time they have a positive love experience, or feeling experience, with another human being, always want to perpetuate it, to force it to happen in the same way again. It never works. The positive experience has called up this childish attitude — that this is the treasure that should be kept! If you have that reaction, you chase it away forever and it will never come back. The more you long for and the more you seek, the more you get into a cramped state of conscious desire, the more hopeless it is. For instance, when he makes friends with a girl he knows that the end will be a disappointment and a parting, so he does not give himself wholeheartedly to the experience. Instead, he is always getting ready to say good-bye. As far as reason is concerned, he is right, but then he does not live; reason has too much say in his life. He does not allow for the unreasonable human side which does not always prepare for the retreat because there will be a disappointment. That shows a lack of generosity. Let us give ourselves with full love to the situation as long as it is there. One need not be the fool who believes in nothing but happiness and then falls from the clouds, but if one always retreats at the beginning in anticipation of the suffering, that is a typical pathological reaction. They try to train themselves not to suffer by always anticipating suffering. I try to anticipate it in fantasy all the time. A double attitude is required: that of knowing how things are likely to turn out, and that of giving oneself completely to the experience all the same. Otherwise there is no life. He does not want to give himself to life and tries to block it off by organizing it with his reason. That is precisely the morbid disease. Remark: When you think of the pictures of van Gogh, even the most melancholy are full of energy and force and emotion. Yes, even desolation is fully experienced and even what is lost is fully expressed, in contrast to this. He has not even the generosity and the courage to expose himself to a situation which could make him unhappy. Already, like a coward, he builds bridges by which to escape — he anticipates the disappointment in order not to suffer the blow, and that is a refusal to live. That is how he sees adult life, for he has not found a bridge by which he could take over what we would call the true life into adult life. That is his great problem, I think, in a nutshell; namely, how can one pull out of this fantasy life of youth and youthfulness without losing its value? The important thing is that he should stick something out. If it is analysis, then analyze seriously, take the dreams seriously, live according to them, or, if not, then take a job and really live the outer life. That is why people tell you suddenly that they have another plan, that this is not what they were looking for. And they always do it at the moment where things become difficult. It is the everlasting switching which is the dangerous thing, not what they do. Woman represents the tie to the earth for a man, particularly if she wants to have children, and a family would tie him forever to the earth. In accepting this side of life, he accepts the just-so situation of life, which he tries constantly to avoid. The tree fixates him, fastens him to earth, either in a coffin or in life. He must accept the fact of his own death. That is a variation of the old mythological motif where after leaving Paradise, which is a kind of archetypal womb, man falls into the realization of his incompleteness, corruptibility, and mortality. If someone writes off his relationships so quickly, you may be sure that he will write himself off equally quickly. That is the suicidal type of person. PA in a nutshell …. He was the Don Juan type and had been with any number of girls with whom he usually lived for about a fortnight or three weeks before walking out on them. As soon as things became a bit too personal and too binding or committing, he just walked off. He did not know, or had not realized, that this was an unsatisfactory way of behaving. He thought everybody behaved like that, that that was the way for a man to live. He was, in a way, completely innocent about this. PA — shadow. TAoPA Puer Mother Complex as Prison v. Puer Aeternus - Work. The point is that for once you do something thoroughly and conscientiously, whatever it is. Plow it and plant something in it. No matter whether it is business, or teaching, or anything else, give yourself for once to that field which is ahead of you. Everybody has a field of reality to work in if he wants to. Except for Hephaestus, who was despised by all the other, there are no working gods in Greek mythology. Fields would also imply limitation. That is the drawback of getting in touch with reality, because in that way one becomes limited, there are restrictions. In your work you come up against your own limitations, both intellectual and physical, for what one produces is always miserable compared with the fantasies one had lying in bed about what one would do, if one could! The fantasy is far more beautiful than the real product! It is certainly one thing to fantasize about a love affair and try to imagine every detail of the experience, but the actual living experience is different. He does not go into the heavens below, which he underestimates, and along with that the instinctual realization of life. He lives his experience automatically, as a split-off shadow affair. In the meantime he does not abstain from sexual contacts, for that would frustrate him too much, so he has twenty or thirty affairs with women, … but he does not let himself be affected by them. He does not live the thing through. You could say of such people that they are as innocent, in the wrong kind of way, as though they had not lived at all, because they live it without being in it. Then they have the physical union, but it does not count mentally or in the inner aspect of fantasy, in the feeling of the man himself. I once analyzed a prostitute who was exactly like an old maid. Her dreams always showed untouched little girls or women who had never had any sexual experience. This was completely true! She shut herself off from what she lived. She made a rational decision that she needed the dollars and said to hell with the rest of it. Thus she was, in a way, untouched by life. Though she had rather severe psychic symptoms, she was not miserable. One of the results of the analysis was that she suddenly realized her own miserable condition, which she had not seen before. It was all carried on by intellectual decision, and she never admitted that certain men disgusted her and other attracted her, for that would have disturbed business. Therefore, though was really a very emotional woman, she did not allow herself to have the emotional experience of what was happening, for if she had done so she would have earned less money by refusing certain men. Although he lives the instinctual side, he does so in a cut-off way. He makes an artificial emotional barrier, separating what he is living from his real self. In such a case the stars below are not realized, so the dream says to take them and enjoy them. Life is incomplete if you live it in its fantasy aspect; it has to be lived through on the instinctual level. But that means really accepting it, letting yourself be hit by the experience and not limiting it by living it in a conditional way. We could say that was the shadow and say that we know they are really cut off. But how do they achieve this appearance of so vigorous a life? They can act! Many people are actors, and to act something simply means to play a part. Those people, as far as I have come to know them, play a part even to themselves, so as to convince themselves that they are living. Then they land in analysis and have to confess that this is not the case and that they are not happy. Others may consider them successful, but they themselves do not feel so. The criterion is simple: Do you feel that you are living? Those who do not feel alive describe it as being as though they were acting, even for themselves. Remark: Or wearing costumes! Yes, and people fall for that, unless they know some psychology and look at the eyes to see the real expression. Then one can tell that something is wrong, even though such people seem to be so successful. Even though there might be nineteen experiences, they would be sordid and miserable because one would always be looking for the ultraviolet? Yes, exactly. That is a good way to put it. You can say that if you live one end in a split-off way, then one end cannot communicate with the other. Put quite simply, you have the experience but it is not meaningful, and an experience which one does not feel meaningful is nothing. It only becomes real when it is connected with an emotional perception of meaning. Without that one is just bored. Puer Aeternus - Risk Free. He bets on the one horse but puts a little on the other too, and that is his self-destructive act. That is worse than going too much either way, for that gets punished and one has to wake up and pull out. The natural interplay of psychological opposites corrects the one-sided business. Life forces one into the middle path.

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