With a text revised and corrected by the author, this definitive edition of Individuation in Fairy Tales is rich with insights from religion, literature, and myth. Dr. von Franz focuses on the symbolism of the bird motif in six fairy tales of Europe and Asia: "The White Parrot" (Spain), "The Bath Bagerd" (Persia), "Princess Hassan Pasha" (Turkestan), "The Bid Flower Triller" (Iran), "The Nightingale Giser" (Balkans), and "The Bird Wehmus" (Austria). She explores the themes of psychological and spiritual transformation in the varied images of birds, such as the phoenix, the parrot, and the griffin. Special attention is given to the connection between fairy tales and alchemy and to the guidance that fairy tales give to therapeutic work.
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Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998) was the foremost student of C. G. Jung, with whom she worked closely from 1934 until his death in 1961. A founder of the C. G. Jung Institute of Zurich, she published widely on subjects including alchemy, dreams, fairy tales, personality types, and psychotherapy.
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Fairy Tales and Dreams - Hope for our World,
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Marie Louise von Franz is a delightful writer who understands what we need to know about ourselves and our world right now. Her sense of humor and informality make the most unfamiliar ideas accessible. She explains beautifully how fairy tales really are the dreams of nations and tribes and how they compensate for our conscious attitudes just as dreams do. She provides hope by explaining how fairy tales communicate the answers to the world's problems which dwell in the unconscious..
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Marie Louise Von Franz does a very sharp job in explaining the role symbols play in these stories. She unravels with remarkably ease the gist behind the stories she analyses and shows us the spiritual role a bird or parrot plays in resolving enigmas of entrapment as quite common to diverse cultures. This book is rewarding reading.
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Individuation is the term with which C. G. Jung describes the psychological process of inner growth and centralization by which the individual finds its own Self. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Hassan Pasha, Bird Flower-Triller, Middle Ages, Holy Ghost, Mysterium Coniunctionis, The Four Tale, Adam Kadmon, Fairy Tile, Faithful John, Far East, Virgin Mary, Great Mother, Lady Drower, Old Testament, Queen Husn New!
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Individuation is the term with which C. G. Jung describes the psychological process of inner growth and centralization by which the individual finds its own Self. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
marriage quaternio, white parrot, alchemical symbolism, helpful animal, prima materia, thirty bird, alchemical texts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hassan Pasha, Bird Flower-Triller, Middle Ages, Holy Ghost, Mysterium Coniunctionis, The Four Tale, Adam Kadmon, Fairy Tile, Faithful John, Far East, Virgin Mary, Great Mother, Lady Drower, Old Testament, Queen Husn New!
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- Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 14) by C. G. Jung on 6 pages
- Collected Works of C.G. Jung: General Bibliography of C.G. Jung's Writings (Vol 19) by C.G. Jung in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series, No. 17) by Joseph Campbell on page 13, and Back Matter
- The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil by Heinrich Zimmer on page 81, and Back Matter
- Grimms' Fairy Tales (Collector's Library) by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Tarot and the Journey of the Hero by Hajo Banzhaf on page 203, and Back Matter
- Legends of the Fall: Jungian Reflections (Jungian Reflections on Literary and Film Classics) by Richard Chachere on page 35, and page 36
- Alchemical Active Imagination: Revised Edition (C. G. Jung Foundation Books) by Marie-Louise von Franz in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Invisible Partners: How the Male and Female in Each of Us Affects Our Relationships by John B. Sanford on page 4, and Back Matter
- A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry by Annemarie Schimmel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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