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Psychoanalitic and analytical psychological interpretations of fairy tales in the guise of contemporary literary interpretation

Starting from the notion of literary interpretation, this paper analyses the specific features of the Freudian and Jungian interpretations of fairy tales. In doing so, it searches for answers to the questions whether the interpretation of fairy tales is current even in the contemporary times, and whether the fairy tales reveal semi-conscious and unconscious perceptions of a specific model of the human world to the contemporary recipient. Acknowledging that the model is based on mimesis, transmitted via multiple ways, it is indicated that the value of its psychoanalytic readings is in the discovery of new, deep layers of meaning. Furthermore, the paper shows that the disclosures are neither temporally nor spatially conditioned, and are offered to the contemporary recipients who are searching for authenticity in the ways in which literature changes their understanding of themselves and the world. Therefore, the paper concludes, as fermentation of dynamics of the genre, such reading should also be included in the guise of contemporary literary interpretation. And any gestures of excommunication unable plunging into the multiplicity of literary mimesis as well as the progress of aesthetic and political interpretation of literature.

fairy tale, literature, interpretation, psychoanalysis, analytical psychology

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