ABSTRACT
As a myth of our culture, Peter Pan shares with other myths a place which seems to transcend the local and historical condi tions out of which it first emerged. As a myth of childhood, it adds to that transcendence the particular force of innocence. Myth and childhood belong together, in that myth is so often identified with what is primitive, even infantile, or is seen as a form of expression which goes back to the origins of culture and speech.1
