ENGL 2810Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mary Wollstonecraft, De Jure, Red Riding
23 Feb 2016
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Many parents believe that only conscious reality or pleasant and wish-fulfilling images should be presented to the child that he should be exposed only to the sunny side of things. But such one-sided fare nourishes the mind only in a one- sided way, and real life is not all sunny (pg. There is a widespread refusal to let children know that the source of much that goes wrong in life is due to our very own nature (pg. 327) a way to get children to interact with the fairy tale. Our culture wishes to pretend people are essentially good (pg. That children are driven by sex and death drives. That adult behaviour is formed by childhood trauma. Rise of feminism and psychoanalysis in nineteenth century, paired with technological and socio-historical innovations, changes the conversation. Bettelheim"s advice: do not belittle children with safe stories.
