Erin's review
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise Von Franz
Erin's review
rating:
recommended for: Dreamers & anyone with a pesky anima/animus
status: Read in September, 2008
rating:
recommended for: Dreamers & anyone with a pesky anima/animus
status: Read in September, 2008
It's delightfully unexpected to find a sentence like this:
If, as a result [of reading this book:], some readers feel motivated to try their hand at interpretation and have fun doing so, then the goal of this book will have been achieved.
in a book described on the back cover as:
a comprehensive discussion of motifs related to Jung's concept of the shadow, the anima, and the animus.
Von Franz sprinkles nice tidbits throughout. Here are a few:
Konrad Lorenz once gave a lecture with many such examples [of bad adaptations:]; I remember one about a bird which, to please its mate in the mating season, produces an enormous red sack on his chest with which to enforce his mating song. This red sack is so heavy that he cannot fly, so his enemies gather and butcher that bird. So that is not a very good invention.
In certain villages of Upper Wallis even today, in every house, in the parent’ bedroom, there is a little window called the soul window, which is opened only when someone is dying, so that the soul can leave through it.
...From all this you see that the carrot, like most vegetables, has an erotic and especially a sexual meaning. ...more
If, as a result [of reading this book:], some readers feel motivated to try their hand at interpretation and have fun doing so, then the goal of this book will have been achieved.
in a book described on the back cover as:
a comprehensive discussion of motifs related to Jung's concept of the shadow, the anima, and the animus.
Von Franz sprinkles nice tidbits throughout. Here are a few:
Konrad Lorenz once gave a lecture with many such examples [of bad adaptations:]; I remember one about a bird which, to please its mate in the mating season, produces an enormous red sack on his chest with which to enforce his mating song. This red sack is so heavy that he cannot fly, so his enemies gather and butcher that bird. So that is not a very good invention.
In certain villages of Upper Wallis even today, in every house, in the parent’ bedroom, there is a little window called the soul window, which is opened only when someone is dying, so that the soul can leave through it.
...From all this you see that the carrot, like most vegetables, has an erotic and especially a sexual meaning. ...more
