The problem of the puer aeternus
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There's something both beautiful/enchanting and deeply tragic about the story. If anyone's interested in an analysis of Saint-Exupéry's psychology via the symbolism of The Little Prince, the book "The Problem of the Puer Aeternus" by Marie-Louise von Franz [1] is absolutely fascinating. [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1404609.The_Problem_of_t...
on “A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland” ↗If this sounds like you, I highly recommend reading "The Problem of the Puer Aeternus". You can definitely skip a lot of the tedious bits where the author essential copy-pastes other books for analysis, but this is a very common pattern where people tend to hold themselves back because…
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