Wise Old Man
<p>The Wise Old Woman and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wise_Old_Man" title="Wise Old Man" class="mw-redirect" >Wise Old Man</a> (in Jung's theory of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_psychology" title="Analytical psychology" >analytical psychology</a>) are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archetypes" title="Archetypes" class="mw-redirect" >archetypes</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Unconscious" title="Collective Unconscious" class="mw-redirect" >Collective Unconscious</a>. 'The "wise old woman"...[or] helpful "old woman" is a well-known symbol in myths and fairy tales for the wisdom of the eternal female nature'.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wise_Old_Woman/Man#cite_note-0" >[1]</a></sup> The 'Wise Old Man, or some other very powerful aspect of eternal masculinity'<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wise_Old_Woman/Man#cite_note-1" >[2]</a></sup> is her male counterpart.</p>