Fantasies of Flight

Borrowing from a tradition begun by Freud but abandoned "when academic psychologists grew suspicious of storytelling and became reliant on numbers as preferred ways to create and affirm knowledge," Ogilvie (psychology, Rutgers U.) attempts to decipher the meaning of flying fantasies by sketching a psychobiography of J.M. Barrie, the father of Peter Pan. He begins by reviewing the role of case studies in psychological research, moves on to a quest to identify and make sense of the conditions...