Loving's the Strange Thing: Jungian Individuation in the Fairy Tales of Carmen Martin Gaite

Anne-Marie Storrs

Loving's the Strange Thing: Jungian Individuation in the Fairy Tales of Carmen Martin Gaite
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Peter Lang Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
30 November 2017
Pages
260
ISBN
9781787078444

Loving’s the Strange Thing: Jungian Individuation in the Fairy Tales of Carmen Martin Gaite

Anne-Marie Storrs

This groundbreaking volume argues that Carmen Martin Gaite and Carl Jung form an ideal combination. All the main features of the Jungian individuation process are present in the Spanish writer’s fairy tales: dreams, shadow figures, wise men and women, the Self, anima and animus. Martin Gaite has been described by the critic Salustiano Martin as trying to offer human beings a different way. In this accessible new study, Anne-Marie Storrs claims that this way is found through the process of individuation - the psychological development of a unique individual - and that aspects of the process are imaginatively depicted in the three shorter fairy tales, El castillo de las tres murallas, El pastel del diablo and Caperucita en Manhattan, and in the novel so closely linked with Hans Christian Andersen’s tale, La reina de las nieves.

Drawing on the work of Jungian writers to clarify and illuminate its argument, this book takes an entirely new perspective on Martin Gaite’s work and, in doing so, challenges the prejudice and suspicion that too many in the humanities and beyond continue to experience when they come face to face with Jung.

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