The Courage to Be: An Antidote to Meaninglessness

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.Show more

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 self-realisation and doom us to both unrealistic adolescent fantasies and experiencing life as a prison.

The puer 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 Lifehttps://jungiancenter.org/jung-on-the-provisional-life/#_ftn2
- Senex Play and Puer Play: A Jungian Interpretation of the Varieties of Recreation https://jungiancenter.org/senex-play-and-puer-play-a-jungian-interpretation-of-the-varieties-of-recreation/#_ftn23
- Marie Louise von Franz's Puer Aeturnus: Lectures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHX0CN3C0gE&list=LL&index
- Episode 125 – The Provisional Life: Redeeming the Real https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-125-the-provisional-life-redeeming-the-real/
- Episode 072 - Puer – Puella: Trapped in the Inner Child https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWVTqvlC1lg&list=LL&index=15&t- An
- Answer to the Question: "Why does the Puer Aeternus need to Work?" https://www.reddit.com/r/Jung/comments/su8boz/an_answer_to_the_question_why_does_the_puer/

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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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There is perhaps no figure in literature more fascinating than the trickster, appearing in various forms in the folklore of many cultures. Trickster is witty and deceitful. He is the timeless root of all the picaresque creations of world literature, and is not reducible to one single literary entity. Trickster tales have existed since ancient times, and has been said to be at the very foundation of civilisation and culture. They belong to the oldest expressions of mankind.

Tricksters are the breakers of rules, agents of mischief, masters of deceit, and boundary crossers. He is an agent of change, and is amoral, not immoral.

Trickster is at one and the same time creator and destroyer, giver and negator, he who dupes and who is always duped himself.

Psychologically, the trickster is an archetype, part of the collective unconscious. Trickster is everywhere, he is an eternal state of mind.

The integration of the trickster archetype allows us to go from being ruled by our own self-centred ego to a new way of living, in which one has integrity and relatedness. It allows us to become aware of our true emotions, behaviours, and thoughts, that our unconscious persona is hiding, and without which there is no individuation at all.

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- Lock, H. (2002). Transformations of the Trickster. Southern Cross Review, 18, 1-8.- Azaria, T. (2015). Trickster: Archetype of changing times. Depth Insights, 8, 29-33.
- C.G. Jung, C.W. Vol. 9 Part I: The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious
- Radin, P., Kerényi, K., & Jung, C. G. (1972). The trickster: A study in American Indian mythology (Vol. 351). Schocken.
- Hyde, L. (1997). Trickster makes this world: Mischief, myth, and art. Macmillan.
- Stefanova, A. (2012). Humour Theories and the Archetype of the Trickster in Folklore: An Analytical Psychology Point of View. Folklore (14060957), 50.
- Den Uijl, S. (2010). The trickster “archetype” in the Shahnama. Iranian Studies, 43(1), 71-90.
- Episode 092 – Trickster – This Jungian Lifehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckpZcjeNd3E&t
- Encountering the Trickster – with David Richo Ph.D.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOKMmF88YRE

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⌛ Timestamps

0:00 Introduction
0:45 What is The Trickster?
2:35 Primitive Form of The Trickster
3:48 Trickster and Laughter
5:50 Trickster as Agent of Change
7:35 Trickster as Creator and Destroyer
9:40 Trickster as Amoral
10:50 Trickster Figures
17:32 The Psychology of The Trickster
22:10 Trickster and Shadow
24:04 Trickster and Ego Inflation
26:15 The Trickster in Alchemy
29:08 Conclusion

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Franz Kafka is one of the major figures of 20th century literature who received little public attention during his lifetime. He dealt with existentialist themes such as alienation, anxiety, disorientation and the absurd.

His work is so original that the term Kafkaesque was coined to describe the atmosphere of his work: the nightmarish, bizarre or illogical situations.

Throughout his works we see the strange dream-like mixture of perplexity and embarrassment play out, such as having some simple task to do that turns out to be so complex that it seems to have no end, and the notion of a grand organisation with its incomprehensible bureaucratic system that hovers invisibly over each individual, and has complete power over one’s life.

We will be focusing on three of Kafka’s most popular works: The Metamorphosis, The Trial, and The Castle.

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📝 Sources

Sources:

- The Trial by Franz Kafka. Translated with an introduction by Idris Parry
- The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
- The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka. Foreword by John Updike
- Grandes Documentales: La Praga de Franz Kafka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCGpBvWiWcY&feature=youtu.be
- Kafka’s Manuscripts and the Hidden Libraries of Jerusalem: A Conversation with Ben Balint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxFFfrqDNc
- Franz Kafka's "The Trial" (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t-GbIbVHCI&t
- Trials, Castles, Insects, and Other Horrors: Franz Kafka | Glimpses Into Existence Lecture 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mL4CLjzHvE&t
- Max Brod on Franz Kafka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8iNnpP5tc4&t
- Franz Kafka's Parable "Before the Law": A Key Text to Understanding his World and Writings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCfoF0MqmOo&t

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⌛ Timestamps

0:00 Introduction
1:10 The Life of Kafka
9:20 The Metamorphosis (1915)
13:59 The Trial (1925)
23:07 The Castle (1926)
24:29 Conclusion

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