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French Fairy Tales: A Jungian Approach
Contributor(s): Knapp, Bettina L. (Author)
ISBN: 079145469X     ISBN-13: 9780791454695
Publisher: State University of New York Press
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Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2002
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Annotation: Bettina L. Knapp explores the universal and eternal nature of fourteen French fairy tales, including the medieval Romance of Melusine, Charles Perrault's seventeenth-century versions of Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard, and Jean Cocteau's film version of Beauty and the Beast. She demonstrates the relevance of these fairy tales for modern readers, both for the psychological problems they address and for the positive resolutions they offer. Through her careful examination of these tales, Knapp shows that people in past eras suffered from such supposedly "modern" problems as alienation and identity crises and went through harrowing ordeals before experiencing some sort of fulfillment.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
Dewey: 398.209
LCCN: 2002020901
Series: Suny Psychoanalysis and Culture
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 403 pages
 
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Bettina L. Knapp explores the universal and eternal nature of fourteen French fairy tales, including the medieval Romance of M lusine, Charles Perrault's seventeenth-century versions of Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard, and Jean Cocteau's film version of Beauty and the Beast. She demonstrates the relevance of these fairy tales for modern readers, both for the psychological problems they address and for the positive resolutions they offer. Through her careful examination of these tales, Knapp shows that people in past eras suffered from such supposedly "modern" problems as alienation and identity crises and went through harrowing ordeals before experiencing some sort of fulfillment. By imparting the age-old wisdom embedded in these works, French Fairy Tales triggers new insights into psychological problems and offers helpful ways of dealing with them.