Dennis Merritt, PhD, “Cinderella, the Tao, and Ecopsychology”
March 25, 2025 at 08:25PM
Program presented to the C.G. Jung Club of Orange County on March 23, 2025. Program webpage at https://ift.tt/hm9lqBv.
“Fairy tales are the purest and simplest expression of collective unconscious psychic processes…. They represent the archetypes in their simplest, barest, and most concise form.” —-Marie Louise von Franz
Working with fairy tales is one of the best ways to develop an archetypal and symbolic perspective on dreams, life and the analytic process. After a brief introduction to fairy tales and methods of interpretation, we will work with one of the most universal fairytale motifs on the planet—Cinderella. Prominent issues revolve around abandonment, loss, grief and narcissism. Significant ecopsychological aspects of the Grimm’s version of this tale will be highlighted together with a relationship to the concept of the Tao. Time permitting, the Grimm’s version will be compared with the Perrault-Disney version.
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