SilkyNinja’s guide to fairy tales
"About five years ago, when I embraced a deep-hidden desire of mine to be a fantasy writer, I found the book The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim at my local library. The major thesis of the book is that the fairy tales that children are drawn to reveal and resolve the psychological entanglements that they already find themselves caught up in. I like to extrapolate this to saying that the stories we are attracted to represent our psychological entanglements. When we boil down the story to its essence in the form of a fairy or folk tale we can choose to consciously grapple with its themes and see how they apply to our lives." -- SilkyNinja’s guide to fairy tales