French Fairy Tales : A Jungian Approach

Bettina L. Knapp explores the universal and eternal nature of fourteen French fairy tales, including the medieval Romance of Melusine, Charles Perrault's seventeenth-century versions of Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard, and Jean Cocteau's film version of Beauty and the Beast. She demonstrates the relevance of these fairy tales for modern readers, both for the psychological problems they address and for the positive resolutions they offer. Through her careful examination of these tales, Knapp shows that people in past eras suffered from such supposedly "modern" problems as alienation and identity crises and went through harrowing ordeals before experiencing some sort of fulfillment.

Bettina L. Knapp is Thomas Hunter Professor at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Introduction

1

(18)

Part I The Middle Ages: Feudalism and ``La Societe Courtoise''

19

(42)

Melusine: ``The Beauty of Things is Fleet and Swift''

23

(38)

Part II The Seventeenth Century: ``Le Grand Siecle''

61

(72)

Charles Perrault's Multi-Veined Donkey Skin, Sleeping Beauty, and Bluebeard

65

(42)

Mme d'Aulnoy's The Bluebird--Metamorphosis, an Unconscious Readjustment

107

(26)

Part III The Eighteenth Century: ``L'Esprit Philosophique''

133

(46)

Denis Diderot's The White Bird--As Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit

137

(20)

Was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Fantastic Queen Merely a Tongue-in-Cheek Fairy Tale?

157

(22)

Part IV The Nineteenth Century: ``Le Romantisme''--Esthetic and Utilitarian

179

(124)

Charles Nodier's The Crumb Fairy--A Sacred Marriage of Sun and Moon

183

(20)

Theophile Gautier's Parapsychological Hetaera/Fairy: Arria Marcella

203

(22)

Countess Sophie De Segur's Rosette--A Manichean Merry-Go-Round

225

(20)

George Sand's The Castle Of Crooked Peak--The Topography of Memory Manipulation

245

(38)

Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelleas and Melisande--The Dying Complex

283

(20)

Part V The Twentieth Century: Slaughter/Science/Spirituality

303

(54)

Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast--``The Plucking of a Rose''

307

(28)

Andree Chedid's The Suspended Heart--The Mystery of Being

335

(22)

Conclusion

357

(4)

Notes

361

(6)

References

367

(14)

Index

381

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