The green man: Robinhood, Peter Pan and Santa Claus

"Robinhood, Peter Pan and Santa Claus represent archetypal incarnations linked to childhood, to its passage rites and lead us to the primordial green and vermilion maturity" asserts Arnaud D'Apremont. The author studies these characters through three aspects. Successively, the author talks about "the shaman or spirit of Nature", then, "the lord of paradox - the help the get through". And at last "the dealing justiciary".
The choice of "becoming an adult" or "remain a child" is a major preoccupation of psychology, with this recurrent questioning which leads us to the mystery of embodiment and creating paradox.

If one one of the goals of life is to become an adult, to grow, each one has the right to ask: why do we have to grow, why not remain a child? Especially "when childhood can be assimilated to a form of original paradise towards which every man can want to go in an eternal return process... and which myths spread" says Arnaud d'Apremont.

The constitution of this personality is one of the bases of the eternal process of creation.  Myths and heroes contributed to that. And, from this point of view, one of the essential figure and original figure (or even the most original if we consider grave engravings) is man we called "savage". Or sometimes the green man, the man of the woods "elementary", in all its meanings.










Have you ever questioned yourself whether heroic figures of your childhood didn't take its roots in a timeless collective memory we can call: unconscious collective? Or Akasha?

The author's answer in this thirty minutes presentation.