Fairy Tales

This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world.

Behind every mother lurks The Great Mother with her awesome power over life and death. Numerous fairy tales deal with women's and men's fear of this power and its threat to their individuality. This fascinating study discusses the psychology of this fear and patriarchal attempts to control it by impeding female bonding. The dynamics involved in the psychology of the birth episodes is especially intriguing. The study exhibits solid scholarship and a keen sense for the relevance of the fairy tale tradition to women of today.

Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.

Also available as an ebook.

Also available in print.
Call number: GR 550 .Z59 2012

"A short history of fairy tale"

Includes essays on The Thousand and One Nights (aka The Arabian Nights), Pinocchio, and L. Frank Baum and The Wizard of Oz..

Library owns vols. one and two. Fairy tales can reveal a hidden side of our lives, our unconscious, and our interrelationship with others. Each of these essays provides a Jungian interpretation of a well known or rare tale to reveal the universal psychic dynamics that affect us in our lives and collectively in the world around us.

"The meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales" Examines numerous fairy tales and traditional stories including "The Three Little Pigs," Hansel and Gretel," and "Jack and the Beanstalk." This book is a classic.

What accounts for the enduring charm of fairy tales? The answer, says the author of this enchanting and insightful book, lies in the way these stories help children deal with classic psychological conflicts. The tales do this by projecting the child’s own internal struggle between good and evil onto the battles between the characters in the stories.

"Encounters with Evil in Fairy Tales"