Daniel Scully
Professor Lavender
Child Psychology PSYC 173
5 December 2016
Bettelheim’s Exploration of Fairytales Bruno Bettelheim tells us a story about what parents think their children should and should not read. Bettelheim believes that school books do not give kids the meaning they deserve “The worst feature of these children’s books is that they cheat children of what he ought to gain from the experience of literature: access to deeper meaning, and that which is meaningful to him at his stage of development” (page 10). He begins by telling the reader not to live their life from moment to moment by true consciousness of our existence and that our greatest need but most difficult achievement in life is to find meaning. He goes on to …show more content…
Many stories begin with the death of a parent creating the most agonizing problem. There is only a limit that punishment or fear can hold on crime which is why the bad guy always loses. He explains to the reader that the hero doesn’t win to promote morality but because ewe as the reader usually feel more connected to the hero so we suffer with them through their trails and suffering as well as their triumphs and victories. A child is capable of making this connection all on their own and so the inner and outer struggles of the hero bring morality upon the …show more content…
The difference between them is that that wish is hidden in dreams meanwhile in fairy tales the wish is more openly expressed. We cannot control what we dream of exactly but it is influenced by our subconscious, the common fairy tale however is the result of the conscious and unconscious by multiple people.
There is an agreement that fairy tales speak to us through symbols representing our unconscious. Freudian psychoanalysts focus on what kind of repressed material are hidden in myths and fairy tales and how they relate to our dreams. Jungian psychoanalysts add that the events and characters represent the archetypical psychological phenomena and suggest the need for a higher state of selfhood.
Although both myths and fairy tales share many similarities such as figures and events; myths have a dominant feeling, that this specific event could not have happened to anyone else. In fairy tales the events are unordinary and improbable, however they are not represented as such. An even bigger difference is the way it ends, in myths it almost always ends tragically, and in fairy tales it is always a happily ever after for the characters that have gone through the “ordinary” events that have transpired.
In the Chapter “The Three Little Pigs: Pleasure Principle Versus Reality
Professor Lavender
Child Psychology PSYC 173
5 December 2016
Bettelheim’s Exploration of Fairytales Bruno Bettelheim tells us a story about what parents think their children should and should not read. Bettelheim believes that school books do not give kids the meaning they deserve “The worst feature of these children’s books is that they cheat children of what he ought to gain from the experience of literature: access to deeper meaning, and that which is meaningful to him at his stage of development” (page 10). He begins by telling the reader not to live their life from moment to moment by true consciousness of our existence and that our greatest need but most difficult achievement in life is to find meaning. He goes on to …show more content…
Many stories begin with the death of a parent creating the most agonizing problem. There is only a limit that punishment or fear can hold on crime which is why the bad guy always loses. He explains to the reader that the hero doesn’t win to promote morality but because ewe as the reader usually feel more connected to the hero so we suffer with them through their trails and suffering as well as their triumphs and victories. A child is capable of making this connection all on their own and so the inner and outer struggles of the hero bring morality upon the …show more content…
The difference between them is that that wish is hidden in dreams meanwhile in fairy tales the wish is more openly expressed. We cannot control what we dream of exactly but it is influenced by our subconscious, the common fairy tale however is the result of the conscious and unconscious by multiple people.
There is an agreement that fairy tales speak to us through symbols representing our unconscious. Freudian psychoanalysts focus on what kind of repressed material are hidden in myths and fairy tales and how they relate to our dreams. Jungian psychoanalysts add that the events and characters represent the archetypical psychological phenomena and suggest the need for a higher state of selfhood.
Although both myths and fairy tales share many similarities such as figures and events; myths have a dominant feeling, that this specific event could not have happened to anyone else. In fairy tales the events are unordinary and improbable, however they are not represented as such. An even bigger difference is the way it ends, in myths it almost always ends tragically, and in fairy tales it is always a happily ever after for the characters that have gone through the “ordinary” events that have transpired.
In the Chapter “The Three Little Pigs: Pleasure Principle Versus Reality