Volume 3 of the Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz: Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales - The Maiden's Quest

The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz is a 28 volume Magnum Opus from one of the leading minds in Jungian Psychology. Volume 3 turns to the Maiden’s Quest within fairytales.The maiden/heroine navigates a complicated maze of inner and outer relationships as she builds a bridge to the unconscious. The heroine contends with the animus in many forms like a devouring and incestuous father, demonic groom, the beautiful prince, an androgenous mother, a cold dark tower, and through conflict with the evil stepmother. Dangers and pitfalls await her as the conscious feminine strives to make connections with the unconscious masculine. The maiden is the undeveloped feminine and the promised fruit of her struggle with the animus is the coniunctio. Volume 3 is a masterwork of cross-cultural scholarship, penetrating psychological insight, and a strikingly illuminating treatise. With her usual perspicacity and thoroughness, von Franz gathers countless fairytale motifs revealing a myriad of facets to the maiden’s quest.Marie-Louise von FranzAt the age of eighteen, while still in high school, Marie-Louise von Franz met Carl Jung at his Bolingen Tower. She later described this as the most decisive encounter of her life. She entered analysis with him months later, completed her doctorate in classical philology and began seeing her first analysands soon after. She was wholeheartedly dedicated to the unconscious, both in her own life and that of her analysands. She developed a far-reaching expertise in fairytales, alchemy, synchronicity and numbers. She is estimated to have personally analyzed over 65,000 dreams. She was a prolific writer and a highly sought-after teacher. Listening to von Franz lecture was a numinous experience. I thought God was speaking. She seemed to know everything. In an amazing fashion and without a text, she ranged over history West and East, mythology, philosophy, anthropology, and a host of other specialized areas. Never in my training had I heard such far-reaching and profound reflections. (Murray Stein, PhD) Table of ContentsIntroduction 1Chapter 1. Bluebeard 65Chapter 2. The Pastor’s Wife 105Chapter 3. The Woman Who Became A Spider 123Chapter 4. Sedna 139Chapter 5. The Girl and the Skull 157Chapter 6. The Two Sisters 163Chapter 7. Mother Holle 175Chapter 8. Ingebjörg and the Good Stepmother 195Chapter 9. The Wages of the Stepdaughter and the House Daughter 203Chapter 10. Little Fatima with the Moon Forehead 211Chapter 11. Snowflake 227Chapter 12. Sleeping Beauty — Little Briar Rose 231Chapter 13. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves 241Chapter 14. Rapunzel 263Chapter 15. Cinderella 273Chapter 16. The Magic Horse 307Chapter 17. Hans Wunderlich 329Chapter 18. Allerleirauh, All-Kinds-Of-Fur 343Chapter 19. The White Bride and the Black Bride 363Chapter 20. The Goose Girl 405Epilogue 425Bibliography 429Index of Authors 443Index of Fairytales 447Subject Index 455 Read more