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http://hdl.handle.net/10071/16507| Title: | Fairy-tale symbolism: an overview |
| Authors: | Vaz da Silva, F. |
| Keywords: | Interpretation Initiation Fairy tale Folklore Meaning Metaphor Psychoanalysis Puberty Symbolism Tradition |
| Issue Date: | 2017 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
| Abstract: | Because the marvelous elements in fairy tales call for an explanation, a cohort of bright minds have pored over the problem of fairy-tale symbolism. Models sharing the nineteenth-century penchant for genetic inquiries have assumed that symbols are the survivals of archaic metaphors. Thus, Max Müller proposed that myths and fairy tales stem from obscured metaphors about solar phenomena; Sigmund Freud speculated that fairy-tale symbolism is the fossilized residue of primordial sexual metaphors; and Carl Jung submitted that symbols express immanent archetypes of the human psyche. |
| Peer reviewed: | yes |
| URI: | https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/id/ci-pub-37510 http://hdl.handle.net/10071/16507 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.79 |
| ISBN: | 9780190201098 |
| Appears in Collections: | DA-LAI - Autoria de livros internacionais |
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