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By Kenneth B. Kidd

Children’s literature has spent many years at the psychiatrist’s sofa, filing to psychoanalysis by way of ratings of students and renowned writers alike. Freud in Oz turns the tables, suggesting that psychoanalysts owe an important and principally unacknowledged debt to books ostensibly written for kids. actually, Kenneth B. Kidd argues, children’s literature and psychoanalysis have encouraged and interacted with one another on the grounds that Freud released his first case studies.

In Freud in Oz, Kidd exhibits how psychoanalysis built partly via its engagement with children’s literature, which it used to articulate and dramatize its subject matters and strategies, turning first to folklore and fairy stories, then to fabrics from psychoanalysis of kids, and thence to children’s literary texts, specifically such vintage fantasies as Peter Pan and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. He lines how children’s literature, and significant reaction to it, aided the popularization of psychoanalytic conception. With expanding recognition of psychoanalysis got here new genres of children’s literature—known this day as photo books and younger grownup novels—that have been often formed as mental of their varieties and functions.

Freud in oz. offers a heritage of reigning theories within the learn of children’s literature and psychoanalysis, delivering clean insights on a variety of issues, together with the view that Maurice Sendak and Bruno Bettelheim should be regarded as competitors, that Sendak’s makeover of monstrosity helped bring about the likes of the Muppets, and that “Poohology” is its personal form of literary criticism—serving up Winnie the Pooh because the poster endure for theorists of extensively various stripes.

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