The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

Part I: A pocketful of magic

Life Divined from the inside

"The Fisherman and the Jinny": Fairy Tale compared to fable

Fairy Tale versus myth: Optimism versus pessimism

"The Three Little Pigs": Pleasure principle versus reality principle

The Child's need for magic

Vicarious Satisfaction versus Conscious Recognition

The importance of externalization: Fantasy figures and events

Transformations: The fantasy of the wicked stepmother

Bringing order into Chaos

"The Queen Bee" : Achieving integration

"Brother and Sister" : Unifying our Dual nature

"Sinbad and the Seaman and Sindbad the Porter" : Fancy versus reality

The frame story of Thousand and one Nights

Tales of Two Brothers

"The three Languages: :

Building integration

"The Three Feathers" The youngest child as Simpleton

Oedipal Conflicts and Resolutions

The Knight in Shining Armor and the Damsel in Distress

Fear of Fantasy: Why were fairy tales outlawed?

Transcending infancy with the help of Fantasy

"The Goose Girl" : Achieving Autonomy

Fantasy, Recovery, Escape and Consolation

On the telling of Fairy Stories

Part Two: In Fairy Land

"Hansel and Gretel"

"Little Red Riding Hood "

"Jack and the Beanstalk:

The jealous Queen in "Snow White" and the Myth of Oedipus

"Snow White"

Goldilocks and the Three bears" "the Sleeping Beauty"

"Cinderella"

The Animal-Groom Cycle of Fairy Tales.