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In the individuation process, the archetype of the Wise old man was late to emerge, and seen as an indication of the Self.

' If an individual has wrestled seriously enough and long enough with the anima ( or animus ) problem ... the unconscious again changes its dominant character and appears in a new symbolic form ... as a masculine initiator and guardian ( an Indian guru ), a wise old man, a spirit of nature, and so forth '.