French Fairy Tales: A Jungian ApproachBettina L. Knapp explores the universal and eternal nature of fourteen French fairy tales, including the medieval Romance of Mélusine, 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. |
Contents
MIDDLE ACES FEUDXLISM AND LA SOCIETE COURTOISE | 19 |
Melusine The Beauty of Things is Fleet and Swift | 23 |
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LE GRAND SIECLE | 61 |
Charles Perraults MultiVeined Donkey Skin Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard | 65 |
Mime dAulnoys The Bluebird Metamorphosis an Unconscious Readjustment | 107 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LESPRIT PHILOSOPHIQUE | 133 |
Denis Diderots The White Bird As Holy GhostHoly Spirit | 137 |
Was JeanJacques Rousseaus The Fantastic Queen Merely a TongueinCheeks Fairy Tale? | 157 |
Countess Sophie De Sugurs Rosette AManichean MerryGoRound | 225 |
George Sands The Castle Of Crooked Peak The Topography of Memory Manipulation | 245 |
MAurice Maeterlincks Pellead and Melisande The Dying Complex | 283 |
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY SLAUGHTERSCIENCESPIRITUALITY | 303 |
Jean Coctaeus Beauty and the Beast The Plucking of a Rose | 307 |
Andree Chedids The Suspended Heart The Mystery of Being | 335 |
CONCLUSION | 357 |
NOTES | 361 |
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY LE ROMANTISME ESTHETIC AND UTILITARIAN | 179 |
Charles Nodiers The Crumb Fairy A Sacred Marriage of Sun and Moon | 183 |
Theophile Gautiers Parapsychological HataeraFairy Arria Marcella | 203 |
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