Many of us have aspired to fly with him to Neverland, to taste the freedom of soaring over life’s worrying details. The story of Peter Pan has fascinated young and old audiences for over one hundred years. Psychoanalysis Child & Adolescent Studies The book appeared in English in 1997 as Peter Pan the Story of Lost Childhood.Ĭontains a new foreword from renowned psychoanalyst Jonathan Sklar. The present book is a revised new translation of the original French publication, Peter Pan ou l’Enfant Triste that was a bestseller in 1992. Barrie and of other Peter Pans who never grow up. The evocative and lyrical style takes the reader through multiple levels of understanding of this seemingly simple “fairy tale”, into the tragic story of its author J. The author explores this mythical figure, both as a story as well as a metaphor, revealing the hidden traumas and psychological conundrums of this “Lost Child”. Peter Pan, “young innocent and heartless”, with his baby tooth smile is one of the most popular heroes of fiction of both children and adults for over one hundred years.
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