Wise Old Man

Jungian psychology single tradition · 1

In Jungian psychology, the Wise Old Man is an archetype of the collective unconscious. He represents a very powerful aspect of eternal masculinity and serves as the male counterpart to the Wise Old Woman.

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“the 'good Wise Man' must here be contrasted with a correspondingly dark, chthonic figure...The hunter or old magician and the witch correspond to the negative parental images in the magic world of the unconscious.”

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