Brothers Grimm

:This article is about the authors the Brothers Grimm. For information about the fictional movie loosely based on these writers, see The Brothers Grimm.

Modern analysis

Modern psychologists and cultural anthropologists theorize that the stories that are often read to children at bed-time in the West are actually representations of emotional angst, fear of abandonment, parental abuse, and/or sexual development. The child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim in his book The Uses of Enchantment believes the familiar Grimms' fairy tales to be Freudian myths. A modern editor of the Brothers Grimm and interpreter of the fairy tales tradition is Jack Zipes.

Related Topics:
Psychologists - Cultural anthropologists - The West - Emotion - Bruno Bettelheim - Freud - Jack Zipes

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