grevedelafaim replied to your post: This morning I had to read a psychoanalytical…

The interpretation or the topic itself?

The interpretation, it was a bit heavy.

For those of you asking for the link, it was in German and in printed form, so I don’t have one, but if you want to look for it it’s by Steff Bornstein.

skypirates replied to your post: This morning I had to read a psychoanalytical…

any chance you could summarise for us? :)

This might be a bit disturbing for some people, so please think about whether or not you want to read this.

It basically narrates the story from the viewpoint of a prepubescent girl afraid of what’s ahead of her, and to flee from that she falls asleep for a hundred years. There’s also lots of Oedipal complex and triangle, the father burning the spindles being a symbol for his want to keep her untouched and away from strange men, to own her, the mother being represented by the thirteenth fairy, wishing her dead to never have to fear her as a rival. Plausible so far. But from here on it only gets worse. The fairy making the girl prick her finger on a spindle is the mother punishing her - the blood in the story standing for menstruation (as a penalty for masturbation), castration, circumcision and defloration. (That paragraph was pretty explicit and contained some strange descriptions of a penis bouncing around as the girl’s masturbation fantasy and her wanting to take it away from her mother and procreate with her father.) The thorn bushes denote pubic hair, and the prince fighting through them and kissing her awake symbolizes her overcoming her refusal of sexuality.

Yup.

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19. crablice said: This is one of those times where I can see where a person’s interpretation makes sense, but is overwhelmingly a heavy stretch. Although that’s my personal, uninformed, and unprofessional opinion.
20. magickal-autistic-cat said: That’s really interesting, but pretty awesome. Freud’s theories are really out there but interesting to say the least.
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25. setyourcompass said: Since I know German I’ll go take a look. But then again, it might annoy and upset me, so maybe I shouldn’t.
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