Interpreting tales

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Interpreting tales

• Vasilisa Prekrasknaia Daughter/step daughter,
  Cinderella story

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Girl driven from home Conflict with
step-mother Sees horseman of morning
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The fiery horseman of noon
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The horseman of night
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Baba Iaga Please note her masculine
features She is associated with plants, herbs,
food
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Baba Iaga is not only mistress of motion she
flies in a mortar and controls the horsemen.
She also has a house that can move, conceal its
door. It is on chicken legs
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The gift of Baba Iaga is magical and powerful
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Vasilisa

• Ritual roots approach stories reflects the
  ancient past
• This is a girls initiation story
• Death and rebirth
• Preparation for marriage
• Acquiring necessary knowledge
• Baba Iaga as remnant of deity or priestess
  charged with initiation of the young

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Psychoanalytical approach -Freudian

• Dealing with mom parental conflict,
  Oedipal/Electra elements (incest version)
• Conquering of nasty aspects of mom without in
  narrative form as opposed to conflict with
  real-life parent
• Venturing out and establishing independence

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Psychoanalytical Jungian

• Journey of integration
• Meeting old woman archetype
• Coming to know that aspect of the self
• Masculine characteristics of girl animus that
  she marries
• Animus not an issue here she acts in a
  masculine fashion
• Male wisdom father archetype is actually
  useless/destructive

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Freud Jung differences

• Tabula rasa filled with experiences
• Ego/id, superego
• Focus on pathology
• Bettelheim tales help avoid pathology
• Provide imagery for development

• Archetypes collective unconscious
• Psyche/self
• Normal development, integration
• Tales provide additional integration experiences
• Dramatis personae like archetypes

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