50bookchallenge, 15000pages
Book #79 -- Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment: the Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, 323 pages.
One of the classics of fairy tale studies, Bettelheim provides psychoanalytic readings of popular fairy tales, stressing the importance of such tales to the child's Freudian development. He goes a little to far as often as not, and seems obsessed with providing a Freudian interpretation for *everything*, but he does make some good points. Not an easy book to get through, however.
Progress toward goals: 200/366 = 54.6%
Books: 79/150 = 52.7%
Pages: 21571/50000 = 43.1%
2008 Book List
cross-posted to 50bookchallenge, 15000pages, and gwynraven
One of the classics of fairy tale studies, Bettelheim provides psychoanalytic readings of popular fairy tales, stressing the importance of such tales to the child's Freudian development. He goes a little to far as often as not, and seems obsessed with providing a Freudian interpretation for *everything*, but he does make some good points. Not an easy book to get through, however.
Progress toward goals: 200/366 = 54.6%
Books: 79/150 = 52.7%
Pages: 21571/50000 = 43.1%
2008 Book List
cross-posted to 50bookchallenge, 15000pages, and gwynraven