10/09/2022
In**st, separation, initiation: what are fairy tales really about?
For hundreds of years or even millennia, these stories were passed from mouth to mouth, the plots wandered from people to people, from fairy tale to fairy tale. Why are they so popular at all times? Because they have hidden messages, without which a person will not become mature.
American psychologist and psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim The author offers his own version: fairy tales reflect the inner conflict of the child, but through the characters. They have conscious and unconscious components of our "I", there the Ego, Id (It) and Super-Ego meet and fight.
We analyze the material of the most common fairy tales
1. "Three little pigs"
2. Little Red Riding Hood
3. "Sleeping Beauty"
4. "Cinderella"