The Man Child: On the Mother Complex and the Absent Father
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ~Andre Gide Marie-Louis von Franz, a Swiss psychologist, noticed a disturbing trend in the mid-20th century – many men and women who were well into their adult years remained psychologically stunted in their maturation. The puer aeternus , which is Latin for “eternal child”, was originally the term used in mythology to refer to a child god who remains forever young. In one of her lectures vo
