Another story from Bruno Bettelheim in The Uses of Enchantment is to Brother and Sister.
In this story of the brothers Grimm players are the desperate nature of the id, ego and superego, and the main message is that they must be supplemented because the individual could achieve happiness. Here the evil arts of an "evil spirit" become a brother in an animal, while the other human remains. It 'difficult to imagine a more vivid, concise and immediately convincing our contradictory tendencies. For most of our lives, when we failed to achieve or maintain our inner integrity, these two aspects of our psyche are fighting each other. The finding that a certain thing he sucita in two different feelings at the same time confuses the child. Understanding this duality requires a perception of inner processes that is facilitated fairy tales. These stories begin with a deep-seated lack of Differenciate between the two brothers, they live together and feel the same feelings, are inseparable. But then, at some point in the growth process, one begins to live a life of their animal, and the other not. At the end of the story, the animal takes a human form, and the two brothers are reunited to be parted again. And 'this is the tale of a symbolic way of espreimere the essential elements of the development of human personality: the first time in the child's personality is undifferentiated, and then, from this stage, they develop the id, ego and superego. In a process of maturation, they must be integrated. Being out of the house is the need to become themselves. Self-realization requires the abandonment of the house and its orbit very painful experience that has many psychological dangers. This development process is inevitable, the pain is symbolized by the regret that children feel about being forced to leave home. The psychological risks involved in this process are the dangers that the hero meets on his travels. In this story the brother is of course the danger of a unit essentially inseparable, and sister, as a symbol of maternal care, is the savior. The story leaves no doubt in the mind of the child who must endure the pain and accept the risks because you have conquer their own personal identity, the child who understands and embraces the message of the story, find the true home of his most intimate individuality. Her sister, representing the mental functions exceeded (the ego and the superego), warns her brother, who (dominated by the id) is ready to be carried away by his desire for instant gratification. With the intensification of the pressure of the id, ego and it overpowers the brakes of the superego (the warnings of his sister lose their power to control). But until we have achieved full integration of our personality, our Ex (our instinctual pressures, our animal nature) live together in an uneasy peace with our ego (our rationality). While his brother has passed his test, his sister has not gone through the same experience. The integration of disparate aspects of our personality, it can only be achieved after the removal of those associali, destructive and unjust, and this can not be achieved until we have reached full maturity. The story also suggests two major shocks of life: leaving the parental home and creating their own family. The contrast between the conduct of his brother, who yields to the stimuli of his instinctual desires and the behavior of his sister, reveals a concern and a sense of responsibility towards other people motivated by the ego and the superego, clearly indicates what they consist of the battle for integration and the victory in this struggle.
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