Bruno Bettleheim's THE USES OF ENCHANTMENT

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Bruno Bettelheim (August 28, 1903 – March 13, 1990) was the director of the Orthogenic School for Disturbed Children at the University of Chicago from 1944 to ...

Doctoral students‎: ‎Benjamin Drake Wright

Fields‎: ‎Director of Orthogenic School (1944–1...

Known for‎: ‎freelance ideas on child psychology; ...

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Orthogenesis, also known as orthogeneticevolution, progressive evolution, evolutionary progress, or progressionism, is the biological hypothesis that organisms have an innate tendency to evolve in a definite direction towards some goal (teleology) due to some internal mechanism or "driving force".

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Bruno Bettleheim's THE USES OF ENCHANTMENT was first published on this day in 1976. The book won the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award.

“The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue.”
―from THE USES OF ENCHANTMENT: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (1976)

Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development. Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to “The Three Little Pigs,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and “The Sleeping Beauty,” Bettelheim shows how the fantastical, sometimes cruel, but always deeply significant narrative strands of the classic fairy tales can aid in our greatest human task, that of finding meaning for one’s life. READ an excerpt here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/the-uses-of-enchantme…/