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Perpetual adolescence : Jungian analyses of American media, literature, and pop culture /

Perpetual adolescence : Jungian analyses of American media, literature, and pop culture / edited by Sally Porterfield, Keith Polette, and Tita French Baumlin. - Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009. - 230 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the Puer/Puella Archetype / George H. Jensen -- Culture on the Couch: Western Civilization's Journey from Crisis to Maturity / Anodea Judith -- Puer and Hellmouth: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and American Myth / Susan Rowland -- Puer in Nature: The Monster and the Grizzly Man / Rinda West -- Grounding Icarus: Puer Aeternus and the Suicidal Urge / Dustin Eaton -- The Puer as American Hero / Sally Porterfield -- Shaken, Not Stirred: James Bond and the Puer Archetype / Luke Hockley -- A Crown Must Be Earned Every Day: Seeking the Mature Masculine in High Art and Pop Culture / Darrell Dobson -- "Protracted Adolescence": Reflections on Forces Informing the American Collective / John Gosling -- Senex and Puer in the Classroom: A Conflict of Consciousness in Education / Keith Polette -- Insanity by the Numbers, Knowings from the Ground: Outgrowing and Outloving the Cult of Quantification / Craig Chalquist -- The Marriage of the Puer Aeternus and Trickster Archetypes: Psychological Rebirth for the Puer Personality / Chaz Gormley -- Little Girl Lost: Sylvia Plath and the Puella Aeterna / Susan E. Schwartz -- Provincials in Time: The Provisional Life / Marita Delaney.

9781438427997 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781438428000 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2008051873


Jung, C. G. 1875-1961.


Adolescent psychology--United States.
Adolescence--United States.

BF724.2 / .P47 2009

150.19/54

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