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Book Title
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
Year (definitive publication)
2017
Language
English
Country
United States of America
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Abstract
Because the marvelous elements in fairy tales call for an explanation, a cohort of bright minds have pored over the problem of fairy-tale symbolism. Models sharing the nineteenth-century penchant for genetic inquiries have assumed that symbols are the survivals of archaic metaphors. Thus, Max Müller proposed that myths and fairy tales stem from obscured metaphors about solar phenomena; Sigmund Freud speculated that fairy-tale symbolism is the fossilized residue of primordial sexual metaphors; and Carl Jung submitted that symbols express immanent archetypes of the human psyche.
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Keywords
Interpretation,Initiation,Fairy tale,Folklore,Meaning,Metaphor,Psychoanalysis,Puberty,Symbolism,Tradition