Perpetual Adolescence: Jungian Analyses of American Media, Literature, and Pop Culture

Editor : Sally Porterfield, Editor : Keith Polette, Editor : Tina F. Baumlin

Perpetual Adolescence: Jungian Analyses of American Media, Literature, and Pop Culture

Book Details

  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Published : 2009
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 240
  • Category :
    Jung and Analytical Psychology
  • Catalogue No : 29203
  • ISBN 13 : 9781438428000
  • ISBN 10 : 1438428006

Also by Tina F. Baumlin

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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.

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