PT104.S3.P4.Q23

PrepTest 104 - Section 3 - Passage 4 - Question 23

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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...
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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.
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Bettelheim · Used Freudian analysis for fairy tales
Author reveals attitude about Bettelheim with description of "wise innocence."
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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?"
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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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This isn’t part of Bettelheim’s explanation. He never suggests that children can’t or won’t read the stories themselves; he just thinks that when parents do the telling, they’re showing their approval of those stories and the messages within them.

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This isn’t part of Bettelheim’s explanation. He never suggests that children believe the stories their parents tell them are true; he just thinks that when parents do the telling, they’re showing their approval of those stories and the messages within them.

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Stated. By telling fairy tales to children, parents sanction (i.e., approve) those stories.

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Anti-supported. Bettelheim thinks that the therapeutic effect of fairy tales comes from children finding their own interpretations of the stories, not from looking to their parents’ interpretation.

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This isn’t part of Bettelheim’s explanation. He never suggests that children believe the stories to be true or that parents reassure them otherwise. He just thinks that when parents do the telling, they’re showing their approval of those stories and the messages within them.

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