(in Saint Exupéry) or to von Spät (in Goetz). If we compare the two puer figures – the little prince and Fo – you see that they have the romantic outlook on life in common, and both are opposed to senex (old man) figures such as the king, the vain man, etc. The destructive aspect is overcome and the opposites unite in a sacred marriage let us hope that in the collective development this, too, will follow. In a poem called The Fool and the Snake, he describes the divine puer as a symbol which first overcomes, then purifies, and finally unites with, the great snake (Saint Exupéry’s boa). In his life and art, Bruno Goetz himself has gone beyond this unsolved problem. Otherwise, we are stuck and are forever building light, ‘rose-colored’ buildings upon burnt-out ruins. In spite of this, however, we must turn towards it and discriminate the seeds in it. In spite of it all, these are attempts to bring forth a new creative, religious attitude and a renewal of cultural creativeness – which can only be a psychological and individual form – but it comes up with such a disgustingly false, political twist that it is falser than wrong itself. (Truth in its prima materia, in its first appearance, is falser than falseness itself.) And that is very true for what we have just experienced. Jung drew my attention: La verite dans sa forme brute est plus fausse que la faux. This is also the ominous background of our present-day problem, in connection with which I would like to quote a saying of Rabelais to which Dr. It is all fought in the projection – intellect against the archaic reality of the unconscious – but having no name for it and not seeing its reality, the author mixes psychic reality with concrete reality. Here it is clear that the bridge to realization has not been found because the reality of the psyche is not realized in this fight. In Faust, Faust finds redemption after death, and in The Kingdom Without Space, the solution is again projected into after death. That is why, in Christianity, victory over evil and the union of the opposites are projected into the time after the Day of Judgment. He himself is a dead old man, which means that the problem is not solved but is again postponed, because if a solution is described as taking place after death, it means that conscious means for realization have not yet been found in this reality. Fo remains victorious: he finds the kingdom at last, but he leaves his body behind von Spät gets the body. On the stage, when they stab von Spät, Fo wins again, this time in this world. Von Spät had won out again by taking Melchior in the boat a hundred years later, Melchior is in the lunatic asylum, because as soon as you are in the kingdom of intellectual reason, anything experienced at the opposite end – in Fo’s realm – seems to be sheer madness. It is available new from Amazon and directly from Inner City Books. They published a version of this book under the title The Problem of the Puer Aeternus. von Franz was the honorary patron of Inner City Books. Excerpt from the book, Puer Aeternus: A Psychological Study of the Adult Struggle with the Paradise of Childhood, by Jungian analyst Marie-Louise von Franz, Ph.D.
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