Displaying 1 of 1 1989 Format: Book Author: Bettelheim, Bruno. Title: The uses of enchantment : the meaning and importance of fairy tales / Bruno Bettelheim. Edition: Vintage books ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Vintage Books, 1989. Description: 328, xi pages ; 21 cm Summary: Argues the values fairy tales provide for children, allowing a safe way to deal with conflict at a young age. Subjects: Fairy tales -- History and criticism. Psychoanalysis and fairy tales. Folklore and children. Children's stories -- Psychological aspects. Children -- Books and reading. Psychoanalysis and folklore. Other Title: Meaning and importance of fairy tales Notes: Originally published: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1976. Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index. National Book Critics Circle Awards Contents: Part I: 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 Dual nature -- "Sinbad and 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 Stories -- 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. LCCN: * 76041020 ISBN: 0679723935 9780679723936 9780307739636 0679723935 Other Number: 19804609 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 81892 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 398.45 Bettelhe Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
