- Puer Aeternus
Puer Aeternus is Latin for "eternal boy" and represents a personality associated with youth or immaturity.
Jungian analysis
In Jungian
analytical psychology , examples of the puerarchetype include the child, young boy or adolescent. The term can also be applicable to females in which case the Latin term is puella aeterna."The Problem of the Puer Aeternus" is a book that Jungian analyst
Marie-Louise von Franz wrote about the "puer aeternus", which includes such figures asPeter Pan andThe Little Prince in the book of the same name byAntoine de Saint-Exupéry .Mozart , as portrayed in the movie "Amadeus", demonstrates this archetype.The antithetical archetype, or enantiodromic opposite, of the puer is the senex.
According to some--not Ichazo-- "The puer aeternus is also represented on the Enneagram of personality types as the type Seven."
Peter Pan syndrome
Peter Pan syndrome is a pop-psychology term used to describe an adult who is socially immature. The term has been used informally by both laypeople and some psychology professionals in popular
psychology since the 1983 publication of "The Peter Pan Syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up", by Dr. Dan Kiley. (Kiley also wrote a companion book, "The Wendy Dilemma", published in 1984.)Peter Pan syndrome is not listed in the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , and is not recognized by the American Psychiatric Association as a mental disorder.ee also
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References
* Kiley, Dan, Dr. (1983) "The Peter Pan Syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up." ISBN 0-396-08218-1
External links
* [http://www.evanbailyn.com/peterpansyndrome.html What Is Peter Pan Syndrome] by Evan Bailyn
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