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Contamination

Several different versions of the same tales and they merged them.

Kunstpoesie

Cultivated literature, a single author

Naturpoesie

Literature of the peasants

Bourgeois Social Values

Christian world view, taking out sexual aspects, trying to teach a lesson, and upward mobility

Frog Prince:


Representation of:


The main girl character


Frog



Archetype:


Elders

Girl: "light as the sun"


Frog: Fallace



Elders: Respecting and listening

Sigmund Freud

Emphasis on instinctual drives


FTs sometimes substituted for actual childhood memories


Look for Oedipus complex

Jung:

Reminder that fantasy also important in and of itself


Look for Archetypes


Amplifications: often an emphasis on the soul & spirit

Typical Archetypes:

Bad guy, damsel in distress, wisdom filled grandparents, bad wolf

Hansel and Gretel Freudian:

-Freudian “oral fixation,” the gingerbread house is the “mother’s body” because it is feeding and nurturing them, the child doesn’t want to be independent from the parent  child could regress into needing the mother more if the mother is trying to wean them off. The witch could also be the mother because she is trying to wean them.

Oedipus Complex:

subconscious sexual desire in child, espc. Male child, for the parent of the opposite sex; accompanied by feelings of hostility to parent of same sex. “Electra complex”: name of corresponding complex for female child.

ID, Ego, Supereog

ID: total unconscious, instinctual impulses


Ego: conscious, controls thought/behavior, most in touch with external reality


Superego: division of unconscious formed through internalization of moral standards of parents

Jungian Interpretation Little Red Riding Hood

Path - a journey to go to the grandmas for wisdom


Forest - Peril, full of danger, and wolves


Wolves: swallow wisdom and needs to be reborn

Freudian Interpretation Freudian:

Red is lustful color, representing menstrual blood


Rape scene


Mother tried to live sexually by the daughter


Moral in Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood

Girls should watch our for predators

The Best Way to go about making Psychological Interpretations of Fairytales

you have to psychoanalyze the Grimms, literary era and motifs behind the tales, best interpretations have the folktale aspect as well as the psychological aspects together.

Bottigheimer Spinning characteristics:

 Spinning itself is the subject or the tale vs. spinning functioning as an indicator of the characteristics of the female protagonist vs. spinning as an action that enhances the plot vs. spinning symbolizes the female sex and/or onerous tasks.