2513: Fairy Tale Exploration: The Daughter’s Individuation Quest
Presenter name: Elisabeth Pomès
Fairy Tale Exploration: The Daughter’s Individuation Quest
In the fairy tales “Beauty and the Beast,” “Donkey Skin,” and “The Courageous Girl,” the father’s actions have important consequences for his daughter’s destiny. In “Beauty and the Beast,” the father gets lost in the forest. He suddenly sees a seemingly uninhabited mansion and enters, but it is the castle of the Beast. Wanting to please Belle, his daughter, the father plucks a rose. This rose is the dearest thing the Beast has in the world. In exchange for the father’s freedom, the Beast demands that Belle come and live with him. In “Donkey Skin,” the father wants to marry his daughter. Desperate, she escapes, hidden under the skin of the castle donkey. In “The Courageous Girl,” a tale from Tadzhikistan, the father is sick and getting blind. His daughter goes off on a perilous journey in search of medicine that will help him regain his health, see again and value the feminine. Each seminar is devoted to the analysis of a tale and its different adaptations in cinema, literature and pictorial art.
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Required reading:
Jung, C. G. CW9 “The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairy Tales,” (Part 1).
Marie-Luise Von Franz. (1996). The interpretation of fairy tales. Shambhala; New York. (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 7) Lang, Andrew (Ed.). (1965)
“Beauty and the Beast” in The Blue Fairy Book (1889). Lang, Andrew. (1965)
“Donkey Skin” in The Green Fairy Book “(Also recorded in Grimm’s #65 under the title “Allerleirauh”)
“The Courageous Girl” (A copy will be sent to the candidates in advance of the seminar)