ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter addresses Carl Jung’s belief that the figure of the eternal youth represents an unavoidable evil, and suggests that its potential for malevolence is perhaps best thought of in terms of its limitlessness. The eternal youth does not do well with limits. One contemporary manifestation of this pernicious limitlessness is the desire to deconstruct even something as foundational (and limiting) as the sex binary, which has provoked a fierce debate between two generations or ‘waves’ of feminism regarding the meaning of the word ‘woman.’ Another theme addressed in this concluding chapter is the desire to reform language and what might be lost as a result of such attempts at reformation, namely a perennial wisdom that is sedimented, to use a term from Merleau-Ponty, into language itself.
