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“[The] prevalent parental belief is that a child must be diverted from what troubles him most, his formless, nameless anxieties, and his chaotic, angry, and…
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Deeper into the Enchanted Woods We Go
Deeper into the Enchanted Woods We Go
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Bruno Bettelheim’s The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Vintage)Here are two more…
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Into the Enchanted Woods!
Into the Enchanted Woods!
Today I’d like to offer a couple of passages from the introduction to Bruno Bettelheim’s landmark book, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of…
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