Introduction: the struggle for meaningBettelheim, B
One day late, but in keeping with the spirit of Halloween, which reminds us each year of the didactic benefits of scaring the crap out of kids, I want to celebrate a fine example of fairy tales told with the gloves off. As Bruno Bettelheim (perhaps somewhat plagiaristically) reminded us,...
TheUsesofEnchantment:theMeaningandImportanceofFairyTalesBrunoBettelheimChildpsychologistDr.Bettleheimexplainshowfairytaleseducate,support,andliberatetheemotionsofchildren.–7–ByRoaldDahlAdaptedforthestagebyDavidWoodTheBigFriend 君,已阅读到文档的结尾了呢~~
identity in the mechanisms required for computer/control and for logic that nature has, in the last million years or so, been able to afford Homo sapiens the luxury of employing the small portion of his nervous equipment that can be spared from really essential duties for pursuing the hobby t...
The theatre space becomes a socially sanctioned space for the creation of what Donald Winnicott (1971) describes as the third or potential space—a liminal play space created from the overlapping minds of the audience and actors. Bruno Bettelheim (1991) argues that fairy tales, from which pantomi...
It took years before parents (and especially mothers) were able to get beyond the guilt heaped upon them by psychoanalysts like Bruno Bettelheim who promoted these preposterous ideas. We may think we have come far since the days of Bettelheim. Relatively speaking, our modern culture hasn’t yet...
InThe Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, psychologist Bruno Bettelheim on the message/lesson of fairy tales (to which old-fashioned chivalrous romance relates), said: “…a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human exist...
As Bruno Bettelheim (cp. Hanstein-Moldenhauer, 2004) had worked out already long ago, this might be the reason why children need to fairy tales. Other authors who for example looked on how adults tell about their life, have noticed that the desire for autobiographies and the high interests...
Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990) Austrian-born American child psychologist, writer Source: in his book ‘The Uses of Enchantment, The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales.’ "From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in...
“coincidences of opposites” exaggerates the already steady inclusion of Bruno the Nolan as discussed by Thornton Wilder, for instance, who traces the play of Bruno’s death burned at the stake in the Wake as Shaun the Post turned to roast meat on a barbeque whose fate, however, is a ...