 | Faye Riter Kensinger - 1987 - 236 sider
...Bruno Bettelheim maintains that the fairy tale communicates vital information to a child: ". . .that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable,...hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious."6 With fantasy and its varied crowd of beings not limited by real boundaries, almost every... | |
 | J. A. Appleyard, Joseph Albert Appleyard - 1994 - 244 sider
...imaginative form a reassuring vision of the goal of healthy development: "the message . . . that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable,...masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious" (1976, 8). What Bettelheim has in mind can be seen in his reading of the familiar tale "Hansel and... | |
 | Maria Tatar - 1993 - 336 sider
...emotions: This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable,...masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious. (8) For Bettelheim, that struggle inevitably turns out to be oedipal. "Fairytale fantasies," he asserts,... | |
 | William Kilpatrick - 1993 - 372 sider
...type of literature? Fairy tales and hero stories, replies Bettelheim. Why? Because they teach that "a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable,...all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious." And what is true for children is true for adults. "To find deeper meaning," writes Bettelheim, "one... | |
 | Margaret J. Marshall - 1995 - 286 sider
...existence. This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable,...masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious. (Bettleheim 1976, 8) As Du Bois's narrative portrays the world, racism and poverty are dominant features... | |
 | John Allen Lemmon - 2008 - 314 sider
...tales help children master the developmental tasks of growing up. Fairy tales teach the child that "a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable,...obstacles and at the end emerges victorious" (Bettelheim, 1976, p. 8). According to Bettelheim, since fewer children today take part in an extended family or... | |
 | Gill Robinson Hickman - 1998 - 634 sider
...of fairy tales is that the struggle against severe difficulties is a fundamental part of life, but "if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters the obstacles and emerges victorious." He stresses the fact that fairy tales impress because they are... | |
 | Marjorie Taylor - 2001 - 224 sider
...fairy tales for young children. According to Bettelheim (1977) "fairy tales teach children that "a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable;...masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious" (p. 8). The interested reader is also directed to the works of Joseph Campbell on the importance and... | |
 | Sidney J. Levy - 1999 - 612 sider
...problems. He points out the message the fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence — that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one... | |
 | Maria Tatar - 2002 - 488 sider
...difficulties in life is unavoidable." "If one does not shy away," Bettelheim added with great optimism, "but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust...all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious." Over the past decades child psychologists have mobilized fairy tales as powerful therapeutic vehicles... | |
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This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence — but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets... 
