Marie-Louise von Franz - The Problem of the Puer Aeternus

Marie-Louise von Franz, Honorary Patron

Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts

Daryl Sharp, General Editor

Also by Marie-Louise von Franz in this Series:

Redemption Motifs in Fairy Tales

On Divination and Synchronicity

Alchemy: An Introduction

Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales

C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time

The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption

Canadian Cataloging in Publication Data

Franz, Marie-Louise von, 19151998

The problem of the puer aeternus

(Studies in Jungian psychology by Jungian analysts; 87)

3rd Edition. Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-919123-88-0

1. Personality. 2. Jungian Psychology.

3. Saint-Exupry, Antoine de, 19001944. Petit prince.

I. Title. II. Series.

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Honorary Patron: Marie-Louise von Franz.

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The substance of these chapters was presented as twelve lectures at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zrich, during the Winter Semester, 1959/60.

I wish to thank Una Thomas for her faithful transcript upon which the somewhat revised text has been based. I also wish to thank Patricia Berry and Valerie Donleavy for the final form in which this seminar appears.

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Cover: "Mater Aeterna," woodblock print by Vicki Cowan, 1999.

Back Cover: Eros riding on a dolphin, archetypal image of the puer aeternus. (Relief medallion on Tarentine vase.)

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The illustrations in the text are from from the French edition of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupry, used with the kind permission of Editions Gallimard, Paris.

Puer aeternus is the name of a god of antiquity. The words themselves come from Ovid's Metamorphoses and are there applied to the child-god in the Eleusinian mysteries. Ovid speaks of the child-god Iacchus, addressing him as