The Peer

The Symbols

Swan, Reed, House or Stilt House, River, Sun, Morning

Might Mean

Relatedness: equality or having equal status with another, empathy, being influenced by or influencing others, peer pressure, identification with another or a group, siblings or kindred spirits

Sociability: active social life, company, friendship, showing one's feelings, being engaged in the world and everyday life

Renewal: fresh start or new beginning, youth, restoration, possibly repeating the same patterns, duplication, copying, imitation

For Example

Movie Clips & Videos:

O' Captain My Captain! - Dead Poets Society

Living With Yourself – Netflix Series

fitting in – The Americans

Beware online "filter bubbles",
The (Future) Friendship Machine

Podcasts:
Bubble-Hopping and Bonus Catch-Up (Invisibilia),
If By Chance We Meet Again (cloning of a bull named Chance)

Writings:
No Time to Think,
Agnes Martin on Resisting the Urge to Be Alone,
Why We Conform, The Myth of Unique Identity

Hospitality, Comfort, Empathy, Reciprocity, Generalized Other,
Compatibility, Golden Rule, Symmetry, Mimicry, Mimesis,
Divine Twins, Kinship, Ship of Theseus, Culture, Display Rules,
Peer Group, Social Influence, Collective Consciousness

Literature: The Ugly Duckling (full story)

But what did he see in the clear stream below? His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck’s nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan’s egg.

He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him; for the great swans swam round the new-comer, and stroked his neck with their beaks, as a welcome.

Songs:
Imitosis (A. Bird)