Tags: archetypes panic fear
Sketch of Pan, 2024. Graphite on paper. Yours Truly.
Keywords:
- Wildness
- Instinct
- Fertility
- Lust
- Nature
- Play
- Music
- Madness
- Ecstasy
- Mischief
- Unruliness
- Primal Masculinity
- Sacred Disorder
- Boundary Crosser
Element: Earth
Planet: Saturn
Zodiac: Capricorn
Related Archetypes:
- The Trickster
- The Satyr
- The Wild Man
- Dionysus (ecstasy, chaos)
- The Puer Aeternus - The Eternal Boy
- The Green Man (cycle of nature and fertility)
- The Devil (as a distorted or repressed version in Christianity)
- Hermes (boundary-crosser, liminal)
- The Magician (when linked with music, charm, and illusion)
Psychology:
Quotes from Puer Aeternus by Marie-Louise von Franz
“What comes up from the unconscious in such cases is often overwhelming, irrational, instinctive — and it produces panic.”
“He tries to overcome the body by denying it, but it comes back in nightmares and obsessions.”
Examples:
The Faun, Pan’s Labyrinth
Mr. Tumnus in The Chronicles of Narnia
Christopher McCandles, true story, Into the Wild