Digesting Jung: Food for the Journey - Inner City Books

The Puer/Puella Syndrome 103
and, if they have learned from their experience, possibly even wise.
But at any stage of life one must make a place for both puer and
senex. In fact, whoever lives one pattern exclusively risks constellating
the opposite. Enantiodromia is waiting in the wings: the more
one-sided we are, the more likely it is that the opposite will break
through to spin our lives around.
A healthy, well-balanced personality is capable of functioning
according to what is appropriate at the time. That is the ideal, seldom
attained without conscious effort and a psychological crisis.
Hence analysis quite as often involves the need for a well-controlled
person to reconnect with the spontaneous, instinctual life as
it does the puella’s or puer’s need to grow up.