Puer – Puella: Trapped in the Inner Child

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Jungian, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Psychology, Dreams, Jung, Relationships, Selfhelp, Society & Culture, Psychoanalysis

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠If the passage into fullsome adulthood is avoided, a person can be trapped in the world of childhood. This protected realm is a nexus of potential, defined by avoiding the rigors of the real for the pleasures of possibility. Peter Pan, who chose to remain in never-never-land, is a well-known image for the flighty ingenuousness of the puer or puella. What stops libido from becoming more grounded in order to engage in more purposeful, ego-strengthening commitments? Charles Dickens’ Bleak House portrays a protagonist who felt that dedication and discipline were intolerably confining. Rapunzel, however, broke out of her elevated tower when a prince kindled her desire to bond in a more earthly way. If an initiatory experience does not activate libido, and the protected world of childhood is not sacrificed, entrapment in a marginal life may ensue.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this Jungian life. Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano,
0:07.0	Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation
0:12.0	that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.
0:17.0	I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia.
0:22.5	I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
0:27.5	I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst on Cape Cod.
0:36.4	So the three of us have been has been hashing around this idea of living a marginal life.
0:43.8	You know, living between the seams of what the culture might think of as a successful
0:50.2	life.
0:51.2	We often have clients who come in and are really having a struggle.
0:54.9	They're having a struggle launching the kind of career they want.
0:58.3	Sometimes they struggle even wanting a career.
1:01.4	And as we're wrestling with the underpinnings of it, we naturally find ourselves talking
1:08.0	about the Puere and the Puella archetype and something that Jung wrote extensively
1:13.5	about, which is the idea that the inner child and the dynamics of the inner child can capture
1:21.6	people and prevent them from taking a next stage. This can look like a lot of different things in the consulting room, but it feels useful to
1:31.5	kind of boil it down to a couple of central difficulties.
1:35.0	Yeah, I mean, there's so much to say about this topic.
1:39.3	And there is some overlap with this idea of the Puerre and the Puella, with the idea of dependent narcissism as
1:48.5	well, which we've touched on in a previous podcast. So what are we really talking about here?
1:54.1	First of all, Pouer and Puella are the Latin words, respectively, for boy and girl. You know,
1:59.9	another colloquial way of talking about it is a
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