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.