Puer Papers,
edited by James Hillman, examines the archetype of the
puer aeternus,
the radiant, aloof, sensitive, and eternal youth, in myth and poetry. Nine papers by James Baird, Thomas Cowan, James Hillman, Thomas Moore, Henry A. Murray, and Randolph Severson are examining the full range of puer phenomena. This eminently practical book grounds the archetype in the real earth of the human condition, where the puer's flights and problems are relevant to diagnosis, dream analysis hermeneutics, societal movements, and literary criticism.
This newly revised and emended edition serves both as a stand-alone reader on the psychology of the puer archetype and as a companion to
Senex & Puer,
vol. 3 of the Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman.