The Uses of Enchantment, Bruno Bettelheim
The Uses of Enchantment, Bruno Bettelheim
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The Uses of Enchantment
The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

Author: Bruno Bettelheim

Narrator: Gerard Doyle

Unabridged: 14 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/28/2017

Synopsis

Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development.

Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to "The Three Little Pigs," "Hansel and Gretel," and "The Sleeping Beauty," Bettelheim shows how the fantastical, sometimes cruel, but always deeply significant narrative strands of the classic fairy tales can aid in our greatest human task, that of finding meaning for one's life.

About Bruno Bettelheim

Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna in 1903. He received his doctorate at the University of Vienna and came to America in 1939, after a year in the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. He was a Distinguished Professor of Education and professor of both psychology and psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He died in 1990.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason on February 21, 2016

I don't think I could have taken much more of this. It has a definite entertainment value, absolutely, but come on - how can anyone take any of this stuff seriously? Part of me thinks Bettelheim is pulling our leg, he just has to be, but no - he's a straight-faced Freudian scholar of the reductive a......more

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on May 26, 2015

This was the first book which assured me that my enduring interest in fairy tales was scholarly and not something to be scoffed at as juvenile. Until then, I have been blissfully unaware of the psychological depth of fairy tales and how a lot of major literary works are inspired by them. Now there a......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on September 10, 2009

Bettelheim has totally schooled me on the phallic symbol. I have learned, in reading about how to read fairy tales, that I am woefully under-educated about penises and their manifold symbols, which there are exponentially more of than I ever could have dreamed about or hoped for. This is an amazing......more

Goodreads review by Algirdas on August 29, 2018

Saldainis, o ne knyga. Privaloma literatūra visiems jauniems tėvams ir seneliams.......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on February 04, 2020

Bruno Bettelheim was a Austrian born Jewish psychoanalyst, and Nazi holocaust survivor who was interned in both Dachau and Buchenwald. He immigrated to America after WWII and became a prominent intellectual in the field of child psychoanalysis. He was controversial for his harsh opinions of fellow Je......more

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