The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bettelheim, Bruno - 1977

New York: Vintage Books, 1977. -----Large format soft cover, 328 + XI clean pages, flat uncreased spine, square tight and clean, faint edge wear. Contents include: Life Divined from the Inside / "The Fisherman and the Jinny": Fairy Tale Compared to Fable / Fairy Tale versus Myth: Optimism versus Pessimism / "The Three Little Pigs": Pleasure Principle versus Reality Principle / The Child's Need for Magic / Vicarious Satisfaction versus Conscious Recognition / The Importance of Externalization: Fantasy Figures and Events / Transformations: The Fantasy of the Wicked Stepmother / Bringing Order into Chaos / "The Queen Bee": Achieving Integration / "Brother and Sister": Unifying Our Dual Nature / "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Porter": Fancy versus Reality / The Frame Story of Thousand and One Nights / Tales of Two Brothers / "The Three Languages": Building Integration / "The Three Feathers"; The Youngest Child as Simpleton / Oedipal Conflicts and Resolutions: The Knignt in Shining Armor and the Damsel in Distress / Fear of Fantasy: Why Were Fairy Tales Outlawed? / Trancsending Infancy with the Help of Fantasy / "The Goose Girl": Achieving Autonomy / Fantasy, recovery, Escape, and Consolation / On the Telling of fairy Stories / "Hansel and Gretel" / "Little Red Riding Hood" / "Jack and the Beanstalk" / The Jealous Queen in "Snow White" and the Myth of Oedipus / "Snow White" / "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" / "The Sleeping Beauty" / "Cinderella" / The Animal-Groom Cycle of Fairy Tales / Notes / Bibliography / Index. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo!. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. Illus. by Gustave Dore . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.