The Drama Triangle in Fairy Tales

According to numerous psychoanalysts and child psychologists, particularly in the sphere of Transactional Analysis, fairy tales have a hidden structure in terms of characters, narrative, location and events that can be ingeniously unravelled using the so-called “Dynamics of the Drama Triangle”. This consists of three specific roles defined as “Saviour” or rescuer, “Victim” and “Persecutor”Continue reading “The Drama Triangle in Fairy Tales”

The Terrors and Delights of Childhood Innocence

Although it has already been shown by various mythographers that in simple popular folklore and fairy tales are often found the complex psychological synopsis of many cultural mythologies often simplified and reset to accommodate the requirements of an oral tradition. Needless to say some basic distinctions exist between allegorical myths and popular folktales. Historians assertContinue reading “The Terrors and Delights of Childhood Innocence”