Psyches Stories, Volume 1: Modern Jungian Interpretations of Fairy Tales

Fairy tales can reveal a hidden side of our lives, our unconscious, and our interrelationship with others. Each of these essays provides a Jungian interpretation of a well-known or rare fairy tale to reveal the universal psychic dynamics that affect us in our lives and collectively in the world around us. It is both lively and entertaining, and thoroughly informative. Volume 1 in a 3-part series. Volume 1 Contains: The Structural and Archetypal Analysis of Fairy Tales; ''Allerleirauh" (All-Kinds-of-Fur) - A Tale of Father Dominance, Psychological Incest, and Female Emergence "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Wonderful Sheep" - The couple in Fairy Tales "Cinderella" - An Interpretation "Cupid and Psyche" - Birth of a New Consciousness "The Dark Man's Sooty Brother - Male Naivete and the Loss of the Kingdom "The Fisherman and his Wife" - The Anima in the Narcissistic Character "Fitcher's Bird" - Illustrations of the Negative Animus and Shadows in Persons with Narcissistic Disturbances "The Goose Girl" - Puella and Transformation "The Goose Girl - Images of Individuation Dr. Murray Stein is a supervising training analyst and former president of The International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland (ISAP Zurich). He is the author of Jung's Treatment of Christianity as well as many other books and articles in the field of Jungian Psychoanalysis. Dr. Stein was also editor of Jung's Challenge to Contemporary Religion. From 2001 to 2004 he was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He has lectured internationally and presently makes his home in Switzerland. Lionel Corbett, M.D., trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Corbett is a core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute teaching depth psychology. He is the author of The Religious Function of the Psyche and Psyche and the Sacred: Spirituality Beyond Religion. He is co-editor, with Dennis Patrick Slattery, of Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field and Psychology at the Threshold: Selected Papers. Dr. Corbett and Dr. Stein have both presented webinars which can be found in the video library at the Asheville Jung Center website.