Senex & puer / James Hillman ; edited and introduced by Glen Slater.

Ed. and introduced by Glen Slater.

Senex and puer : an aspect of the historical and psychologucal present -- Peaks and vales : the soul/spirit distinction as basis for the differences between psychotherapy and spiritual discipline -- Notes on opportunism -- The great mother, her son, her hero, and the puer -- Notes on verticality : creation, transcendance, ambition, erection, inflation -- Pothos : the nostalgia of the puer eternus -- Betrayal -- Puer wounds and Odysseus' scar -- On senex consciousness -- Negative senex and a renaissance solution -- Coda : a note on methodology -- Old and new : senex and puer -- Of milk-- and monkeys.

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