The use of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim

While undertaking this research assignment I am also interested in the idea of the value of the fairytale and what they truly mean. To help me further understand this I am reading The use of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim. Dr Bettelheim wrote this book to help adults become aware of the irreplaceable importance of fairytales. By revealing the true content of such stories he show how children may make use of them to cope with their baffling emotions, whether they be feelings of smallness and helplessness or the anxieties the child feels about strangers and the mysteries of the outside world. taking the best- known stories in turn, he demonstrates how they work, consciously or unconsciously, to support and free the child.