Last lecture Todays lecture

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Last lecture Todays lecture

• More Bettelheim and appropriateness of tales to
  children
• No cut and dry answers violence as an example
• Do you expose kids or not? To what kind of
  violence?

• Need for fantasy helps in developing
  internal/external distinction
• Fantasy deprivation
• The Stages Oral, anal, sexual
• Oedipal
• Latency
• Mature sexuality

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Not all folklore is good at certain ages

• Dead baby jokes and little moron jokes
• Analogous to disaster jokes
• Power of expression of a painful issue
• But expression alone is not sufficient to an
  undeveloped psyche
• Bettelheim on myths recall Battlestar
  Gallactica

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Adult misunderstanding of fantasy

• Mistake childhood confusion for imagination
• Greg and pregnancy
• Kids in the Grottos

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Results of fantasy deprivation

• Parallel to dream deprivation
• Excessive fantasy in teenage years
• Dungeons and dragons
• Myst, Zelda, other games Mortal Kombat
• Or excessive fascination with the gross
• Beevis and Butthead
• Southpark, Joe Cartoon
• Or real-life violence, failure to make the
  internal/external distinction
• The various high school massacres
• Loudon county murder of dad

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The stages

• Hansel and Gretel orality
• Bettelheim does not give any stories about anal
  control
• Little Red Riding Hood girls Oedipal

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Stages continued

• Jack and the Beanstalk boys Oedipal
• Snow White and the Jealous Queen
• Inversion and attribution of desire
• Latency (also in Sleeping Beauty)

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Cinderella sibling rivalry
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Animal groom cycle

• Frog Prince
• Beast of Beauty and
• Fractured Fairy Tales