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Episode 78: Marie-Louise von Franz

Speaking of Jung: Interviews with Jungian Analysts

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Do We Tell Fairy Tales as a Way of Transmitting the Main Motives of Culture?

i think it's useful to remember that we're looking at this through our adult eyes, but for the most part, our our first encounters with fairy tales happen when we're very young and very impressionable. I often would tell them bedtime stories in which the the main themes were a little girl whose grandmother or one of the elders had taught an ancient language. And i was doing it with great intention to let them know that, you know, thereis all sorts of dragons and anferocious elements in our psyche,. That once you can name them, you may be able to bind them. In to this day, even in their young adult years, they remember those stories powerfully. So

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