The Seba library treats Seagull in 5 passages, across 4 authors (including von Franz, Marie-Louise, Bosnak, Robert, Miller, David L.).
Bach, Richard. Jonathan Livingston Seagull. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970.
Von Franz’s bibliography for her Puer Aeternus study cites Jonathan Livingston Seagull as a primary cultural text illustrating the puer aeternus complex, anchoring the seagull symbol to the psychology of transcendence-inflation.
, Puer Aeternus: A Psychological Study of the Adult Struggle with the Paradise of Childhood, 1970thesis
Bach, Richard. Jonathan Livingston Seagull. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970.
The identical bibliographic citation in the companion edition confirms that von Franz consistently positions Bach’s seagull narrative as a key document for diagnosing the puer aeternus in contemporary culture.
, The Problem of the Puer Aeternus, 1970thesis
Suddenly, something makes her look down, and there is a dead seagull and a pair of muddy shoes.
Bosnak uses the image of the dead seagull from Chekhov’s play as a dream-incubation object, demonstrating how the theatre symbol carries layered meanings of sacrificed innocence and the weight of projection in embodied imaginal work.
, Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel, 2007thesis
a Love Story, by Segal and a Seagull by Bach; a new batch of science fiction; ritual happenings in drama where the theater of the absurd used to reign
Miller groups Bach’s Seagull with other countercultural phenomena as symptoms of a collective mythological hunger filling the vacuum left by the death of monotheistic frameworks.
, The New Polytheism: Rebirth of the Gods and Goddesses, 1974supporting
Next he set the heron and seagull to quarrelling in order to obtain a herring which the former had swallowed.
In Radin’s trickster mythology, the seagull appears as an instrument manipulated by Raven — a figure conscripted into deceptive interspecies conflict rather than symbolic transcendence.
, The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology, 1956supporting