01 The Brothers Grimm & Fairy Tale Psychology Lecture

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Half a century before the unification of Germany, two very unusual scholarly brothers named Grimm, fervent nationalists and great philologists, set out to demonstrate the classic roots of the German language and its function as a treasury of fundamental human culture. In pursuing this aim, they gathered folk tales that supposedly came down from antiquity. These powerful stories do teach morals but not the morals we may expect. Nonetheless, the Grimm brothers’ collection unexpectedly swept through the world and made folklore a new field of study. To understand how such tales as “Hansel and Gretel,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” and “Rapunzel” project such transnational power, we need to understand how they appeal symbolically and psychologically both to the archetypal grandmother teller and to child audiences of many ages.

[StudioErsatz]

Verre does in fact mean "glass" in french, as in the material. Cristal means crystal, or a specific kind of glass. But verre is the most commonly used word for glass.

[sailorbychoice]

what's the name of this painting?

[acelibrarian]

I was with you until you trotted out Freud...