The term puer aeternus is Latin for eternal boy. Carl Jung used the term in the exploration of the psychology of eternal youth and creative child within every person.

It is an archetype, and like all archetypes, has both a positive and a negative side. It can bring the energy, beauty and creativity of childhood into adult life, or thwart selfrealisation and doom us to both unrealistic adolescent fantasies and experiencing life as a prison.

The puer is the manchild who refuses to grow up, take responsibility, and face life’s challenges, he expects other people, typically his parents, to solve all his problems. He tries to go as high as possible away from reality, ending up like Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn’t grow up, who lives in Neverland, a place where people cease to age and are eternally young. The puer aeternus is also known as the Peter Pan syndrome. This has become an increasingly common problem in our modern age.

Those who find themselves unable to commit to work, to form satisfactory relationships, to commit to the discipline of education, to carry the weight of responsibility, or who feel that their life has become meaningless, will find the integration of the archetype of eternal youth invaluable in their life.

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Sources

Puer Aeternus: A Psychological Study of the Adult Struggle with the Paradise of Childhood by Marie Louise von Franz
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
Now or Neverland: Peter Pan and the Myth of Eternal Youth by Ann Yeoman
Jung on the Provisional Life https://jungiancenter.org/jungonthe...
Senex Play and Puer Play: A Jungian Interpretation of the Varieties of Recreation https://jungiancenter.org/senexplay...
Marie Louise von Franz's Puer Aeturnus: Lectures    • Marie Louise von Franz's Puer Aeturnu...  
Episode 125 – The Provisional Life: Redeeming the Real https://thisjungianlife.com/episode1...
Episode 072 Puer – Puella: Trapped in the Inner Child    • PUER  PUELLA: Are you trapped by you...  
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⌛ Timestamps

(0:00) Introduction
(2:36) Adult Struggle with the Paradise of Childhood
(15:08) Senex and Puer
(16:55) The Role of Play in Jung’s Life
(19:24) The Puer Aeternus and The Little Prince
(26:16) Integration of Puer Aeternus

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