“In The uses of enchantment, Bettelheim puts forward the thesis that fairy tales give children the opportunity to understand inner conflicts which they experience in the phases of their spiritual and intellectual development, and to act these out and resolve them in their imagination (ucy.ac.cy).” If children did not have the sense of wonder they would not have the ability to resolve inner conflicts thus leaving them in a state of fixation. “Each of the psychosexual stages is associated with a particular conflict that must be resolved before the individual can successfully advance to the next stage (simplypsychology.org)”. It is crucial to be able to advance to the next stage because if fixation does occur in a certain stage the person “will behave in some ways that are characteristic of infancy, or early childhood
“In The uses of enchantment, Bettelheim puts forward the thesis that fairy tales give children the opportunity to understand inner conflicts which they experience in the phases of their spiritual and intellectual development, and to act these out and resolve them in their imagination (ucy.ac.cy).” If children did not have the sense of wonder they would not have the ability to resolve inner conflicts thus leaving them in a state of fixation. “Each of the psychosexual stages is associated with a particular conflict that must be resolved before the individual can successfully advance to the next stage (simplypsychology.org)”. It is crucial to be able to advance to the next stage because if fixation does occur in a certain stage the person “will behave in some ways that are characteristic of infancy, or early childhood