What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Psychotherapist Carl Jung called him the puer aeternus.
The eternal youth.
The adolescent who never grows up.
Peter Pan.
Bro.
Living the couch surfer's life, and without an inner senex (old man) to tell him to check his childish impulses, the puer aeternus soon becomes the slacker, the hooligan, the terrorist, and, eventually, the fascist destroyer of societies.
Jung had two pieces of advice for these neurotics: get a job and deal with your mommy issues.
Meantime—as the neurosis reaches epidemic proportions—what will we grownups do?
