Self-study
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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.
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."
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
Bettelheim's Assumptions ·
1. Children will interpret a story benignly and 2. Freudian interpretations will accurately represent children't interpretations
Passage Style
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Unsupported. Freud’s explanation for why “nothing is incredible” in fairy tales isn’t about what kinds of people read them or how easy they are to read. Rather, his explanation is that in fairy tales, “
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Unsupported. Freud’s explanation for why “nothing is incredible” isn’t that the stories are purely imaginary. In fact, nothing gives us Freud’s view on how much of fairy tales is imaginary. (Did he think fairy tales are 100% imaginary? Maybe he thought they’re based on true stories, but with a little imagination mixed in.) Instead, Freud’s explanation is that “
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Strongly supported. Freud believed that “
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Anti-supported. Freud had a specific definition of “uncanny” and believed that fairy tales
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Unsupported. Freud’s explanation for why “nothing is incredible” in fairy tales doesn’t involve repression. Repression is instead Freud’s explanation for what creates feelings of the uncanny—and