Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the course!

    • WELCOME! I'm Bijal, Your Course Instructor and Bibliotherapist

    • A Little Bit About the Course
  • 2

    MODULE 1: Foundations of Freud

    • Overview

    • Freud's Life and Historical Concept

    • Freud's Core Concepts in the Context of Fairy Tales

    • Freud's Core Concept 1 - The Death Drive

    • Freud's Core Concept 2 - The Pleasure Principle

    • Freud's Core Concept 2 - The Pleasure Principle: Application in Fairy Tales PDF

    • Freud's Core Concept 3 - The Unconscious in Fairy Tales

    • Freud's Core Concept 4 - Repression

    • Freud's Core Concept 5 - Symbolism

    • Freud's Core Concept 6 - The Uncanny (Das Unheimliche)

    • Freud's Core Concept 7 - The Double (Der Doppelgänger)

    • Freud's Core Concept 8 - The Oedipus Concept

    • Freud's Core Concept 9 - Wish Fulfilment

    • Freud's Core Concept 10 - Condensation & Displacement in Fairy Tales

    • Why Freud saw stories as collective dreams of culture

    • Freud's Structural Model - Id, Ego, and Superego in Fairy Tales

    • Latent vs. Manifest Content

    • Common symbolic themes in fairy tales: hunger, sexuality, punishment, reward

    • Freud’s “Family Romances”

    • Fairy Tale Psychoanalytic Worksheet

    • Primary Readings

    • Reflective Questions (Optional)
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    MODULE 2: Fairy Tales in Culture

    • Overview

    • What is a Fairy Tale?

    • A Short History of Fairy Tales

    • Jack Zipes — Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion (1983) — Overview

    • Selected Grimms tales (first vs. later editions)

    • Bettelheim’s idea of fairy tales as guides for child development

    • Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment

    • Perrault & Bluebeard

    • Morality, Gender & Power As Explored in Fairy Tales

    • Is Horror the Flip Side of Fairy Tale?

    • Reflective writing: What fairy tale still speaks to you—and why? (Optional)
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    MODULE 3: Gender, Sexuality and Psychoanalysis

    • Overview

    • The Feminine Ideal in Fairy Tales

    • Feminine Agency

    • Dangerous Women, Monstrous Desire

    • Masculinity and Power

    • Fathers, doubles, and unconscious anxieties in Fairy Tales and Modern Stories

    • Queering the Fairy Tale

    • Judith Butler On Gender Performativity

    • Rewriting the Tale

    • Reflective Questions (Optional)
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    MODULE 4: Bibliotherapeutic Analysis of Freudian Themes in Fairy Tales

    • Overview

    • Hansel & Gretel — Survival, Hunger, and the Devouring Mother

    • Bettelheim on Hansel & Gretel

    • The Little Mermaid — Desire, Sacrifice, and the Abject Body

    • Kristeva on The Little Mermaid, Abjection & The Body

    • Beauty and the Beast — Fear, Desire, and the Civilizing of the Monster

    • Bettelheim on Beauty and the Beast

    • Carter’s The Tiger’s Bride

    • Reflective Questions (Optional)
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    Module 5: Applications & Critiques

    • Freud Under Fire — Critiques & Limits

    • Lacan’s Mirror Stage & Identity in Fairy Tales

    • Kristeva & Abjection

    • Narrative Therapy

    • Reflective Questions
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    Next Steps...

    • Required Reading

    • Next Steps

    • Before you go...