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Perpetual adolescence : Jungian analyses of American media, literature, and pop culture / edited by Sally Porterfield, Keith Polette, and Tita French Baumlin.
- Title
- Perpetual adolescence : Jungian analyses of American media, literature, and pop culture / edited by Sally Porterfield, Keith Polette, and Tita French Baumlin.
- Publication
- Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.
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- Description
- 230 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Arguing that American culture appeals to and is populated by children and adolescents who merely appear to be adult men and women, the essays in Perpetual Adolescence examine the Jungian archetype of the "eternal youth"--The puer aeternus--as it is manifested in the arrested development of American culture. From the infantilization of the American psyche and the lionization of teenaged celebrities and bodies, to fanatical conformity, and puerile entertainment, the contributors probe the various ways that American television, music, film, print, Internet, education, and social movements work to nourish and sustain this child archetype. Offering analytic psychology as an instrument of social analysis and critique, they point to the need for dialogue over the causes and effects of our puer-fixations, which have become, in large part, both a creation and a creator of the American zeitgeist. --From publisher's description.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781438427997 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1438427999 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781438428000 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1438428006 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008051873
- OCLC
- 291453872
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library