Wishfulfillment and Symbolism in Fairy Tales

by Franz Ricklin

Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series No. 21

WISHFULFILLMENT AND SYMBOLISM
IN FAIRY TALES

BY

DR. FRANZ RICKLIN
OF ZURICH

AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION BY

DR. WM. A. WHITE
of Washington, D. C.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I.

Introduction

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1

CHAPTER II.

Wish Structures and their Forms

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4

CHAPTER III.

The Wish Structure of the Fairy Tale

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12

CHAPTER IV.

Symbolism

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24

CHAPTER V.

The Symbolism of the Fairy Tale

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33

CHAPTER VI.

Transposition Upward. Infantilism

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51

CHAPTER VII.

Some Special Sexual Fairy-Tale Motives

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65

Index

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83