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The uses of enchantment : the meaning and importance of fairy tales / Bruno Bettelheim.

Bettelheim, Bruno. (Author).

Summary:

Discusses how fairy tales are used to educate, support, and liberate the emotions of children; how the tales reveal the child, subconsciously to himself.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0394497716
  • ISBN: 9780394497716
  • Physical Description: vi, 328, xi pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Knopf : 1976.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: The struggle for meaning -- Part One: A pocketful of magic -- Life divined from the inside -- "The fisherman and the Jinny": fairy tale compared to fable -- Fairy tale versus myth: optimism versus pessimism -- "The three little pigs": Pleasure principle versus reality principle -- The child's need for magic -- Vicarious satisfaction versus conscious recognition -- The importance of externalization: fantasy figures and events -- Transformations: The fantasy of the wicked stepmother -- Bringing order into chaos -- "The queen bee": achieving integration -- "Brother and sister": unifying our dual nature -- "Sindbad the seaman and Sindbad the porter ": fancy versus reality -- The frame story of "Thousand and One Nights" -- Tales of two brothers -- "The three languages": building integration -- "The three feathers": the youngest child as simpleton -- Oedipal conflicts and resolutions: the knight in shining armor and the damsel in distress -- Fear of fantasy: Why were fairy tales outlawed? -- Transcending infancy with the help of fantasy -- "The goose girl": achieving autonomy -- Fantasy, recovery, escape, and consolation -- On the telling of fairy stories -- Part Two: In fairy land -- "Hansel and Gretel" -- "Little Red Riding Hood" -- "Jack and the Beanstalk" -- The jealous queen in "Snow White" and the myth of Oedipus -- "Snow White" -- "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" -- "The Sleeping Beauty" -- "Cinderella" -- The animal-groom cycle of fairy tales.

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Subject:
Fairy tales > History and criticism.
Psychoanalysis and fairy tales.
Folklore and children.
Children's stories > Psychological aspects.
Fairy tales.
Genre:
Folklore.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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