Everything about Senex totally explained
Senex is
Latin for
old man. In Ancient Rome, the title of Senex was only awarded to elderly men with families who had good standing in their village.
Jungian Psychology
In
Jungian
analytical psychology, examples of the senex
archetype in a positive form include the
wise old man or
wizard. The senex may also appear in a negative form as a devouring
father (for example
Ouranos,
Cronus) or a doddering
fool.
The antithetical archetype, or
enantiodromic opposite, of the senex is the
Puer Aeternus.
Senex in literature
Two stock characters of theater are the
senex amans, an old man unsuitably in love with a much younger woman, and the
senex iratus, an old man who irrationally opposes the love of the young couple.
Senex is also the name of a wise old fara, a subcellular creature inside a
mitochondrion, in the novel
A Wind in the Door by
Madeleine L'Engle (
1973, ISBN 0-374-38443-6).
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