This volume, for the first time, collects Hillman’s running encounters with a primary psychological pattern, an archetype that arises alongside the very attempt to fashion psychological perspective. Senex and puer are Latin terms for “old man” and “youth,” and personify the poles of tradition, stasis, structure, and authority on one side, and immediacy, wandering, invention and idealism on the other. The senex consolidates, grounds and disciplines; the puer flashes with insight and thrives on fantasy and creativity. These diverging, conflicting tendencies are ultimately interdependent, forming two faces of the one configuration, each face never far from the other. “Old” and “new” maybe the most direct terms for the pair.
PART I: OPENINGS Senex and Puer: An Aspect of the Historical and Psychological Present (1967)
Peaks and Vales: The Soul/Spirit Distinction as Basis for the Differences Between Psychotherapy and Spiritual Discipline (1976)
Notes on Opportunism (1972)
PART II: MOVEMENTS AND PATHOLOGIES The Great Mother, Her Son, Her Hero, and the Puer (1973)
Notes on Verticality: Creation, Transcendence, Ambition, Erection, Inflation (2002)
Pothos: The Nostalgia of the Puer Eternus (1974)
Betrayal (1964)
Puer Wounds and Ulysses’ Scar
PART III: SENEX On Senex Consciousness (1970)
The ‘Negative’ Senex and a Renaissance Solution (1975)
PART IV: OLD AND NEW Coda: A Note on Methodology (From The Souls Code) (1996)
Old and New/Senex and Puer (From Inter Views) (1983)
Of Milk . . . and Monkeys (1967)
This volume, for the first time, collects Hillman’s running encounters with a primary psychological pattern, an archetype that arises alongside the very attempt to fashion psychological perspective. Senex and puer are Latin terms for “old man” and “youth,” and personify the poles of tradition, stasis, structure, and authority on one side, and immediacy, wandering, invention and idealism on the other. The senex consolidates, grounds and disciplines; the puer flashes with insight and thrives on fantasy and creativity. These diverging, conflicting tendencies are ultimately interdependent, forming two faces of the one configuration, each face never far from the other. “Old” and “new” maybe the most direct terms for the pair.
PART I: OPENINGS Senex and Puer: An Aspect of the Historical and Psychological Present (1967)
Peaks and Vales: The Soul/Spirit Distinction as Basis for the Differences Between Psychotherapy and Spiritual Discipline (1976)
Notes on Opportunism (1972)
PART II: MOVEMENTS AND PATHOLOGIES The Great Mother, Her Son, Her Hero, and the Puer (1973)
Notes on Verticality: Creation, Transcendence, Ambition, Erection, Inflation (2002)
Pothos: The Nostalgia of the Puer Eternus (1974)
Betrayal (1964)
Puer Wounds and Ulysses’ Scar
PART III: SENEX On Senex Consciousness (1970)
The ‘Negative’ Senex and a Renaissance Solution (1975)
PART IV: OLD AND NEW Coda: A Note on Methodology (From The Souls Code) (1996)
Old and New/Senex and Puer (From Inter Views) (1983)
Of Milk . . . and Monkeys (1967)
This volume, for the first time, collects Hillman’s running encounters with a primary psychological pattern, an archetype that arises alongside the very attempt to fashion psychological perspective. Senex and puer are Latin terms for “old man” and “youth,” and personify the poles of tradition, stasis, structure, and authority on one side, and immediacy, wandering, invention and idealism on the other. The senex consolidates, grounds and disciplines; the puer flashes with insight and thrives on fantasy and creativity. These diverging, conflicting tendencies are ultimately interdependent, forming two faces of the one configuration, each face never far from the other. “Old” and “new” maybe the most direct terms for the pair.
PART I: OPENINGS Senex and Puer: An Aspect of the Historical and Psychological Present (1967)
Peaks and Vales: The Soul/Spirit Distinction as Basis for the Differences Between Psychotherapy and Spiritual Discipline (1976)
Notes on Opportunism (1972)
PART II: MOVEMENTS AND PATHOLOGIES The Great Mother, Her Son, Her Hero, and the Puer (1973)
Notes on Verticality: Creation, Transcendence, Ambition, Erection, Inflation (2002)
Pothos: The Nostalgia of the Puer Eternus (1974)
Betrayal (1964)
Puer Wounds and Ulysses’ Scar
PART III: SENEX On Senex Consciousness (1970)
The ‘Negative’ Senex and a Renaissance Solution (1975)
PART IV: OLD AND NEW Coda: A Note on Methodology (From The Souls Code) (1996)
Old and New/Senex and Puer (From Inter Views) (1983)
Of Milk . . . and Monkeys (1967)
