Fairy Tale Friday – King Arthur and the Riddle: The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Lady Ragnell

Join us along with Stephanie Gierman, Jungian Analyst, and Bette Joram, Ph.D.  this Friday as they lead us into our discussion of fairytales. Once a month, Society members and other lovers of the power of story and the Jungian approach to understanding and developing ourselves, meet for Fairy Tale Fridays. In each story we find shadow, complexes, anima, animus, soul, ego, alchemy, and the numinous, all guiding us on a journey toward selfhood.

This Friday, we are reading, King Arthur and the Riddle: The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Lady Ragnell. In these group discussions we start to understand how to interpret the story, the task of translating the fairy tale into psychological language.

Suggested reading: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales by Marie Louise Von Franz.
Marie Louise quoted Jung as saying, "that to be in a situation where there is no way out or to be in conflict where there is no solution is the classical beginning of the process of individuation". Fairy tales begin this way too.