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Index
Cover
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Struggle for Meaning
Part One - 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
“Sindbad 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
Notes
Bibliography
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