L'interprétation des contes de fées

Fairy tales, those mysterious productions stemming from the popular spirit, arouse the interest of both adults in search of meaning just as they do children, their natural audience. But how can the message of this strange literature derived from oral tradition be decrypted? Marie-Louise von Franz, the main successor and continuator of Carl Gustav Jung's work, offers us an interpretation based on depth psychology. Hence, thanks to a better understanding of symbolic language, a wealth of meaning opens up to us. The eternal mystery of Evil, in particular, is seen in a new light. Thus, we discover, beyond all moralism and in a both therapeutic and initiatory perspective, that the age-old experience conveyed by fairy tales can help us dialogue with the forces of evil that lurk within us in order to disarm them and transform them into beneficial influences.