Puer aeternus (Latin for 'eternal boy'; female: puella aeterna;
sometimes shortened to puer and puella) in mythology is a child-god
who is forever young. In psychology, it is an older person whose
emotional life has remained at an adolescent level, which is also
known as Peter Pan syndrome. The puer typically leads a provisional
life due to the fear of being caught in a situation from which it
might not be possible to escape. He or she covets independence and
freedom, opposes boundaries and limits, and tends to find any
restriction intolerable.The phrase puer aeternus comes from
Metamorphoses, an epic work by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC â€" c. 17
AD) dealing with Greek and Roman myths. In the poem, Ovid addresses
the child-god Iacchus as "puer aeternus" and praises him for his role
in the Eleusinian mysteries. Iacchus is later identified with the gods
Dionysus and Eros. The puer is a god of vegetation and resurrection;
the god of divine youth, such as Tammuz, Attis, and Adonis.The figure
of a young god who is slain and resurrected also appears in Egyptian
mythology as the story of Osiris.Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung
developed a school of thought called analytical psychology,
distinguishing it from the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud
(1856â€"1939). In analytical psychology (or "Jungian psychology"), the
puer aeternus is an example of what Jung considered an archetype, one
of the "primordial, structural elements of the human psyche." Puer aeternus Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter