Jacksonville Public Library

The uses of enchantment, the meaning and importance of fairy tales, Bruno Bettelheim

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-328) and index

index present

non fiction

The uses of enchantment

bibliography

19804609

Bruno Bettelheim

the meaning and importance of fairy tales

Discusses how fairy tales educate, support, and liberate the emotions of children

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 duel 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 tales -- 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