He also foreshadows the hero that he sometimes becomes (e.g. The "positive" side of the puer appears as the Divine Child who symbolizes newness, potential for growth, hope for the future. Like all archetypes, the puer is bipolar, exhibiting both a "positive" and a "negative" aspect. Conversely, the shadow of the senex is the puer, related to Hermes or Dionysus-unbounded instinct, disorder, intoxication, whimsy. The shadow of the puer is the senex (Latin for 'old man'), associated with the god Cronus-disciplined, controlled, responsible, rational, ordered. In analytical psychology (or "Jungian psychology"), the puer aeternus is an example of what Jung considered an archetype, one of the "primordial, structural elements of the human psyche." Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung developed a school of thought called analytical psychology, distinguishing it from the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud (1856–1939).
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In Jungian psychology Part of a series on The puer is a god of vegetation and resurrection the god of divine youth, such as Tammuz, Attis, and Adonis. Iacchus is later identified with the gods Dionysus and Eros. In the poem, Ovid addresses the child-god Iacchus as " puer aeternus" and praises him for his role in the Eleusinian mysteries. 17 AD) dealing with Greek and Roman myths. The phrase puer aeternus comes from Metamorphoses, an epic work by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC – c. The puer covets independence and freedom, opposes boundaries and limits and tends to find any restriction intolerable. In Jung's conception, 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. In the analytical psychology of Carl Jung, the term is used to describe an older person whose emotional life has remained at an adolescent level, which is also known as " Peter Pan syndrome", a more recent pop-psychology label. Puer aeternus ( Latin for 'eternal boy' female: puella aeterna sometimes shortened to puer and puella) in mythology is a child-god who is eternally young. Child-god who is forever young, in mythology and as an archetype
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