About this title: Of the various types of mythological literature, fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and thus offer the clearest understanding of the basic patterns of the human psyche. Every people or nation has its own way of experiencing this psychic reality, and so a study of the world's fairy tales yields a wealth of insights into the archetypal experiences of humankind. Perhaps for foremost authority on the psychological interpretation of fairy tales is Marie-Louise von Franz. In this book - originally published as An Introduction to the Interpretation of ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Spring Publications, NY
Date Published: 1970
Description: Book is Very Good, except contains pencil underlining and notes in margins, writing inside front cover and top of title pages. 8vo. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780877735267ISBN:0877735263
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Edition: Revised Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala, Boston and London
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780877735267ISBN:0877735263
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xi, 208 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 22 cm. A C.G. Jung Foundaton Book. Tight, clean copy. "Of the various types of mythological literature, fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and thus offer the clearest understanding of the basic patterns of the human psyche. Every people or nation has its own way of experiencing this psychic reality, and so a study of the world's fairy tales yields a wealth of insights into the ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780877735267ISBN:0877735263
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Edition: REV SUB
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SHAMBHALA PUB
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780877735267ISBN:0877735263
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780877735267ISBN:0877735263
Description: 21 x 13.8 x 1.8 cm. Paperback in good condition. 1996 Shambhala Publications Inc, revised edition. ladylisabooks-used books, secondhand books, out of print books, hard to find books, for sale, second-hand books, college books, student books, nonfiction, first edition, signed copies, non-fiction books delivered world wide. Excess postage may be required for books over 1 kg in weight outside the EU. ISBN 0-87773-526-3 0877735263. read more
"Marie Louise von Franz is my favorite Jungian author, and I'm finding she's particularly popular with writers and artists. Here are some quotes from the book:
"All fairy tales endeavor to describe one and the same psychic fact, but a fact so complex and far-reaching and so difficult for us to realize in all its different aspects that hundreds of tales and thousands of repetitions with a musician's variations are needed until this unknown fact is delivered into consciousness; and even then the theme is not exhausted. This unknown fact is what Jung calls the Self, which is the psychic totality of an individual and also, paradoxically, the regulating center of the collective unconscious."
"We constantly build our lives by our ego decisions, and it is only in old age when one looks back that one sees that the whole thing had a pattern. Some people who are more introspective know it a bit before the end of their lives and are secretly convinced that things have a pattern, that they are led, and that there is a kind of secret design behind the ephemeral actions and decisions of a human being. Actually, we turn toward dreams and the unconscious because we want to find out more about our life pattern in order to make fewer mistakes and not to cut our knives into our inner carpet, but to fulfill our destiny instead of resisting it. This purposeiveness of an individual life pattern, which gives one a feeling of meaningfulness, is very often symbolized in the carpet. Generally carpets, especially Oriental ones, have those complicated meandering patters such as you follow up when in a dreamy mood, when you feel that life goes up and down and along and changes around. Only if you look from afar, from a certain objective distance, do you realize that there is a pattern of wholeness in it."
"A man who represses his anima generally represses his creative imagination."
"Fantasy is not just whimsical ego-nonsense but comes really from the depths; it constelllates symbolic situations which give life a deeper meaning and a deeper realization."
"Without the fire of emotion no development takes place and no higher consciousness can be reached."
"If someone in analysis is dispassionate about it and does not suffer - if there is neither the fire of despair nor hatred nor conflict nor fury nor annoyance nor anything of that kind - one can be pretty sure that not much will be constellated and it will be a 'blah-blah' analysis forever. So the fire, even if it is a destructive sort of fire - conflicts, hatred, jealousy, or any other affect - speeds up the maturing process and really is a 'judge' and clarifies things."
"When we are able to see our own greed, jealousy, spite, hatred, and so on, then these can be turned to positive account because in such destructive emotions is stored much life, and when we have this energy at our disposal, it can be turned to positive ends."
The last 84 pages of the book describe the relationship of a man to his anima and a woman to her animus (feminine and masculine sides). It was directed at the interpretation of fairy tales, but full of interesting advice the individual's relationship with the anima or animus, and also about how to understand each other better in relationships by understanding the dynamics of each other's anima and animus. I found it really intriguing."
"Von Franz was apparently Jung's chief disciple, and her work on fairy tales and folklore was central to her continuation of his work. This volume is, mostly, more centered on the act of interpreting than on the big Jungian worldview, and thus is interesting even if you don't entirely buy into Jungianism. It discusses the importance of tale-telling and fairy tales and demonstrates Jungian folklore analysis by dissecting individual tales in depth.
I enjoyed the way von Franz uses multiple versions of a story to triangulate a strong interpretation. The stories she uses are often evocative and little known. Many of the symbols she discusses, and the diagramming of fairy tales by number and gender of characters are very useful and fruitful. The last sections of the book were less intriguing, especially the section where she talks about the female fairy tale heroine, which dripped gender essentialism and was more full than usual of Jungian metaphysical certainties. Most of the book, however, was thought-provoking and even inspiring. Recommended for fabulists and other fairy tale enthusiasts."
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