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The Uses of Enchantment

criticism by Bettelheim

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analysis of fairy tales

In fairy tale
In his Uses of Enchantment (1976), Bettelheim asserted that the apparently cruel and arbitrary nature of many folk fairy stories is actually an instructive reflection of the child’s natural and necessary “killing off” of successive phases of development and initiation.
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discussed in biography

In Bruno Bettelheim
…children in Israeli kibbutzim; and The Uses of Enchantment (1976), in which Bettelheim argued for the importance of fairy tales in child development.
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