Acknowledgments 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": Refl ections on Forces Informing the American Senex and Puer in the Classroom: A Confl ict of Consciousness in Education KEITH POLETTE Insanity by the Numbers, Knowings from the Ground: Outgrowing and Outloving the Cult of Quantifi cation 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 List of Contributors Index
Sally Porterfield is former Director of the A&S Drama Program at the University of Hartford, where she was Assistant Professor of Drama. She is the author of Jung's Advice to the Players: A Jungian Reading of Shakespeare's Problem Plays. Keith Polette is Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. His books include Teaching Grammar Through Writing: Activities to Develop Writer's Craft in ALL Students in Grades 4-12. Tita French Baumlin is Professor of English at Missouri State University and coeditor (with James S. Baumlin and George H. Jensen) of Post-Jungian Criticism: Theory and Practice, also published by SUNY Press.
"The fourteen essays in Perpetual Adolescence each stand on their own as important contributions to understanding the archetype of the Eternal Child in Western popular culture ... Perpetual Adolescence is a timely, provocative, and sobering examination of the endemic suffering and pandemic consequences of mass-mindedness 'driven by archetypes.'" - Spring "This compelling analysis of why visions of never-ending childhood are so compelling in contemporary media delivers a solid, Jungian deconstruction of pop culture." - CHOICE "Perpetual Adolescence is a fascinating study of one of Jung's most important archetypes, that of the puer aeternus, which implies arrested development rather than eternal youth. Perpetually interesting, this book is genuinely interdisciplinary and will appeal to those interested in cultural studies, film studies, environmental studies, and mythic criticism." - Jeffrey Berman, author of Death in the Classroom: Writing about Love and Loss
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