Tags: archetypes
🎵 Lost Boy (Arlene’s favorite)
Keywords:
- playfulness
- unbounded aptitude
- potential
- optimism
- naivety
- youthful
- free
- foolish
Element: Air
Planet: Mercury
Zodiac: Gemini
Related Archetypes:
Psychology:
The Psychology of The Man-Child (Puer Aeternus)
“The eternal youth archetype is the first one we experience in life, and remains vital throughout our whole life. It is closely related to the mother archetype.”
and this book by Marie-Louise von Franz: The Problem of the Puer Aeternus
“He cannot endure the idea of being trapped by life — by the feminine, by time, by the body.”
“One of the main characteristics of the puer is his fear of being pinned down, his fear of being bound to reality, to woman, to time.”
“He wants to remain weightless and to float above life. He cannot bear the burden of incarnation.”
“There is something profoundly tragic in a man who tries to remain eternally young. He has no contact with his own depths.”
Examples:
Peter Pan
Gatsby
The Little Prince