PrepTest 104 - Section 3 - Passage 4 - Question 22

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Freud's essay on "The Uncanny" can be said to have defined, for our century, what literary criticism once called the Sublime. ████ ████████████ ██ █ ██████ ██ ██ █ ████████████ █████ ██ ███████████████████████ ██ ██████████ ██ █████ █████████ ██ ██████ ████ ██ ████ ████ █████████ ███████ ██ █████ ████████████ ██ ████████ ███ ██ ██ █████ ██████████ █████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ████████ ██ ███████ ██ ███ ████████████ ██ █████████ ████ ███ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███ ███ ██ ██ ███████ █████ ████ ███ ███████ ██████ ███ ███████ ███ █████ █ ██████ ██ █████████ ███████████ ██ ███ █████████ ███ ██ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ ███████ ██████████ █████ ██████ ███████████

Intro to Topic · Freud's Sublime / uncanny

The Sublime is a sense of transcendence. We associate it with the uncanny. Mind over matter. Repression. I'm just going to pretend like I understand what Freud's talking about, like everyone else...

Author · Freud could have analyzed fairy tales

Author thinks that fairy tales would have fit the "uncanny" Freudian analysis because they are connected with repressed desires.

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Freud · Did not analyze fairy tales

Freud didn't because everything is possible in a fairy tale hence nothing is incredible.

Bettelheim · Used Freudian analysis for fairy tales

Author reveals attitude about Bettelheim with description of "wise innocence."

Author’s Praise · Bettelheim's book is a splendid achievement

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Bettelheim · Fairy tales can be therapeutic for autistic children

Because a child's isolation, loneliness, and anxieties are addressed by fairy tales. When parents tell fairy tales to children, they are approving the fairy tales. Okay... wtf does this have to do with Freudian analysis? Are we just talking about something else now?

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Question · Why should fairy tales be therapeutic?

Bettelheim just said that fairy tales are therapeutic. Now we're saying, "Okay, but why is it therapeutic?"

Bettelheim's Answer · Children contemplate the story's connection to their lives and find their own solutions

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Bettelheim's Assumptions · 1. Children will interpret a story benignly and 2. Freudian interpretations will accurately represent children't interpretations

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The author explains how fairy tales help children mainly in P5, so we should look there for an answer. Bettelheim thinks fairy tales can help children find solutions to their problems by drawing lessons from those tales that relate to their own troubles.

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This isn’t part of Bettelheim’s explanation of how fairy tales help. His explanation is all about how children draw real-life lessons from fairy tales. It’s not about using fairy tales to escape reality.

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Stated. Bettelheim thinks fairy tales help troubled children find solutions to their problems by drawing lessons from those tales that relate to their own troubles.

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This isn’t part of Bettelheim’s explanation of how fairy tales help. The only discussion of parents is in P4: when parents tell fairy tales to their children, it strengthens the tales’ therapeutic effect. But we’re being asked for what’s responsible for that therapeutic effect in the first place**.** We get the answer in P5: children contemplate the story's connection to their lives and find their own solutions to their troubles.

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This isn’t part of Bettelheim’s explanation of how fairy tales help. His explanation is all about how children connect the messages in fairy tales to their own problems, which helps them find solutions. It’s about pointing out other, even worse problems.

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Anti-supported. Bettelheim’s explanation is that children find their own solutions.

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