Psicoanalisis of fairy tales

Undoubtedly fairy tales are an interesting tool to impart knowledge to children in a symbolic manner, helps to stimulate their imagination and acquire new values as explained otherwise perhaps would be too abstract or devoid of interest.

The case is that it can that have never you raised you, but beyond the moral, fairy tales have hidden symbols, subliminal messages sometimes related to sex, which more than a psychologist has been interpreted or desgranar in history, one of the most famous was Bruno Bettelheim.

Bruno Bettelheim was born at the beginning of the last century in Austria, as a Jew was forced to go through several concentration camps, but it was fortunate to be able to buy his freedom and emigrate to the United States before the outbreak of World War II.Once America developing great part of his professional career as head of a section of the University of Chicago where dealing with emotionally disturbed children.

One of his most famous works is The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, published in 1976 and which in Spanish is known as Psicoanalisis of fairy tales, a surprising work which Bettelheim addition to explain the importance of the lives of children, fairy tales interpreted us the different symbols: characters, situations, places, landscapes, etc. classic Riding Hood, snow white, Hansel and Gretel tales, the three little pigs, sleeping, etc.

Anyone who has read and heard knows that they celebrating any kind of emotional conflict, problems sooner or later the children in your life, in fact it is not nothing uncommon that once you know them, e.g. associated with bad with these fairy tales characters people, is easier to explain how to them.

In the work of Bettelheim, psychoanalysis of fairy tales goes beyond but these symbols associated with sex.For example according to him the electra complex comes out in little Red Riding Hood, apparently remains clear that Riding Hood is a vicious and aims to have sex with his father represented by Wolf, Wolf in turn also want sleep with Riding Hood, why not eats it in the forest, what you want is a sexual encounter that precedes the Act of devouring it. The grandmother also fulfills its role as instigator, makes come to men and dress attractive red layers.

The theme of masturbation goes mentioned in the story of the beans, Bettelheim was clear that this enormous beans plant that grows toward the sky is the child's penis and climbing by this giant plant symbolises masturbation, as well as the protagonist he fears that he caught climbing, a child also feared that he caught masturbating.Obviously this learning is done unconsciously, but they will help children see that their fears about masturbation are unfounded.

Bettelheim, menstruation seems to be the central theme of the sleeping, that blood spilled DJing with a needle to the sixteenth birthday has no other explanation... is more, if one misses the version of the story written by Perrault, hand history is most porn is not a Prince but a King that the awake, but not with a kiss but violating it...

Speaking of violations: she apparently flees the holiday as a symbol that is afraid to be raped by Prince, Bettelheim and even crimp the ripple involving her vagina, as something where you enter the lost shoe or slides a member body in the Cinderella tale.And what about snow white after seen in previous stories: apparently both she and the stepmother are two instill sexually competing, and the truth is that they fit perfectly into a fantasy of submissive and dominating...

Already you see as the panorama in fairy tales, Shrek is a very small mouse!, but not themes, these stories come with for centuries and nevertheless we are all left