*“Fairy tales are the purest and simplest expression of collective unconscious psychic processes. Therefore, their value for the scientific investigation of the unconscious exceeds that of all other material.”* - M.L. von Franz Subscribe to newsletter: eternalisedofficial.com/subscribe Become a Patron (exclusive content): www.patreon.com/eternalised KZfaq Member (exclusive content): kzfaq.info/love/qos1tl0RntucGGtPXNxkkAjoin Official Merch: eternalised.creator-spring.com Donate a Coffee: ko-fi.com/eternalised Transcript and artwork gallery: eternalisedofficial.com/2023/07/23/the-psychology-of-fairy-tales Special thanks to my Patrons for the support ❤ Armando, Jay B, icarium75, Lucas Tcherkezian, Michael Huang, Ryon Brashear, Mr X, Camille Guigon, ABM, SQRT42Pi, matevz drnovsek, Landry Lago, Ramunas Cepaitis, Justin Raper, Tj, Joanne Durkin, Jose Luis Palacios, Jackie Cox, Terra Bell, Abdullah Erkam Ak, OwainW , Katarina Eidmann, Danny Lloyd, Ross Benjamin, Andrew, insanctuary ., U Man, traviis_wk, Loreen Avakian, Andrew Kirkendall, Seinaru Senshii, Bita Habibi, Michael, Hörður Harðarson, Larz, Matthew O'Hara, Neil Holmes, Alexia Filpo, Kavita S., vic, Henry Schmieder, Oleg Streltsov, Lisa Frazier, Julian B., TK Karlsen, Colin Ledbetter, C.L. Craft, StevenEdward99, John, Thenifrexkedit , Max , Tony Spicer, Mihaela Minulescu, Frankie Brockway, Razvan Popescu, Marley Smith, Raven Royal, Nick Ives, Chris Birch, TiMOThY ERiC, Aaron bartow, Kate, William Bailey, Ronen Kalo, Bryce Van Der Wal, Ryan Dutton, Elijah Klages, Helena Varley, Kay Gasei, daniel beverly, Michael Culella, Josh Guess, jonah neal, Aeternitas, kyle tipton, Jake Masters, Jared Neufeld, Andrew, Harry Wanker, Hiding With Shepherds, Pavel Burtsev, Ryan Aye, Lunar Kai, Brice Delaney, Koba143 , Miranda Peacock, Nathalie, Parker deters, Simon

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As the dominant culture of postmodernism morphs into metamodernism, we see our stories from times forgotten are inescapable and necessary. They hone the meaning that pierces our nihilism, reminding us that our lives are very much in our hands and that can be beautiful

The picture of the princess on the multiple mattresses was in the fairytale book my granny bought me when I was a kid, I'm now a grandparent of four and my grandkids have the same book. The artwork in it was absolutely gorgeous.

Celtic Music Prophecy playing in the background gave me goosebumps and reminded me of all the days I've spend walking alone in the mountains dreaming up my fairy tails⛰️

Great work; I love when the deep levels of classic stories are taken as seriously as they should.

The power of fiction within the real physical world cannot be overstated. I think where we would all be if the characters who inspired us just never existed. And i realize that without all those stories, we would find it nearly impossible to be ourselves. Perhaps we are meant to create through our passions and hardships. That may be all thats left of us after all

after falling in love for the first time in a long time, I have found solace in my heartbreak by creating my own fairytales and life/love lessons by creating stories from playlists. I did spin-offs from fairytales and made them my own. I feel I connect with all of the characters, so they are representations of all my viewpoints. I love these stories. the synchronicities. it makes me think in reincarnation for sure. we are all just going thru these cycles, throughout history, with different situations and factors.

With their transformative narratives and vivid imagery, fairy tales aren't just escapist fantasies, but rich allegories of our deepest human fears and experiences. We're reminded of the transformative power of love and empathy as they illuminate the profound paradoxes of life and the magic in the mundane, challenging us to confront our inner demons and potential. Essentially, they make us realize how beautiful life is underneath the surface of our everyday lives.

Some fairy tales are so magical that humanity needed to exist just for their stories to be imagined!!!

My interpretations: Rumpelstiltskin: - A miller, symbolically speaking, can show up in some fairytales as one who uses "trickery" through machinery to turn a profit (the root word of "machine" deriving from Greek "makhana", which means "device, tool, machine;" but also "contrivance and cunning".) The fact that he is poor, and sells his daughter to the king making the outlandish claim of straw spinning (alchemical process) in the first place, proves this to me. There is more on millers in Marie Louise von Franz's "The Feminine In Fairytales". - The miller's daughter then follows on this tradition of trickery by not spinning the gold herself, allowing the first dwarfish creature (there is more on dwarves in "The Feminine In Fairytales" too), wherein dwarves can often represent an inner creativity, especially in feminine psychology, the creative animus - creating trinkets below the surface of the earth (the unconscious), often taking on a more positive role (like in Snow White And The Seven Dwarves), but they can also show up negatively, like here - where he takes over the alchemical, creative (though highly unlikely) task from her in exchange for something else. She agrees to this three times, even when she has nothing left to give - and I believe it is this "when she has nothing left to give" that is the critical part, as there are very few fairytales I have encountered where a genuinely helpful figure would extract the price of a newborn when there is nothing left to give it in return). - Then, fortunately, the dwarf falls into its own trap of trickery, bragging about its name out loud. I believe it is because, again, it was the messenger (not herself) that overheard (and interestingly, named "the devil") and not herself, that the story does not end as happily, and ends quite abruptly - but the negative dwarf animus traps itself and splits itself in two, and the royal child (the new conscious attitude emerging) lives, so it's at least hopeful. The Frog King / Iron Henry: - The pretty much number one rule of all fairytales: if an animal talks to you, you LISTEN!!! You do exactly as the animal says, and you let them perform that task for you. The animal is often your instinct, and it is exceedingly rare that the symbolic representative of instinct would ever lead one astray. The priciple has carried over into modern storytelling, with the "save the cat" method being one that is taught to teach audiences that the instincts of a character they otherwise may not like, has their instincts aligned if they save or care / nurture their instincts - also, interestingly, a tell-tale early sign of psychopathy is often reported as doing harm to or killing animals. - Numerically, to begin with, there is a king and his three daughters; the fairytale is lopsidedly feminine. The frog can have many symbolic associations - one relating to sexuality and fertility, but also "from mother earth". In this, the frog seems to act as an animus figure (perhaps one pertaining to a sexual / relational awakening?), wherein the youngest daughter is confused at the idea that the frog desires companionship, finding it gross, silly and unappealing when the frog eats with her and wishes to sleep in her bed. The king has the good sense to tell her to see through her promise, and the frog turns out to be a prince. - There is likely further symbolism in the golden ball (which seems to be a plaything), the golden crown, and the golden plate - there are three, which seems numerically significant, as there were also three sisters. I know that gold is commonly linked to the masculine in fairytales, like silver is commonly linked with the feminine, but that's the extent of my analysis there. - The story does not seem to end with a marriage and child, perhaps because a new conscious attitude has not been reached in the woman, but with the prince and Faithful Henry, the masculine seems to be restored - there I mention here of the king's son, which brings the figure of characters in the fairytale to a seven - in which the masculine side now slightly overpowers the feminine, but with eight horses drawing the carriage, I wonder - if the story would continue, if the woman would (with sensible advisement from the king), follow the animal instinct, marry this prince and have a child, whether the figure would be brought up to the totality of eight (4, 8, 16, typically being the numbers to signify complete individuation). I think this ending shows positive potential, but I don't think it's quite there yet. It feels incomplete to me. Beauty And The Beast: - This is a fairytale that was written by a novelist, more so than derived from folkoric tradition, so I don't believe it carries so much significance to an understanding of the collective unconscious so much as the personal unconscious of the author. - However, I do know that it is based on the "Cupid and Psyche" myth, which involves a feminine psychological journey of development, as beautiful mortal Psyche (her name meaning "soul") transgresses Cupid's (or Eros', as it would be in Greek) goes through a fake wedding to god of desire Cupid, who impregnates her without her able to know who he is. She is persuaded into believing he is a monster, into looking in the face of and trying to kill him, but fails, and is punished by his mother Venus by having to undergo different tasks to find him. They then have a real wedding. - I believe the story type is tied into a common feminine archetype where there is a handsome animal prince (or god) under a curse. I believe it can also be commonly seen in a good deal of "held captive by a monster" desire / awakening romance stories of today. Which may sound a little ridiculous when I say I believe the 2010's "I've Been Sold To One Direction!" style Wattpad classics - or whichever of the latest and greatest "I've Been Kidnapped By A Mafia Boss!" novels seem to broadly match the same archetypal structure, but I mean it in all sincerity. Hansel And Gretel: - Marie Louise von Franz also has a small section on twins - especially twin boy and twin girl - in "Individuation In Fairytales". I think it's notable how prevalent the witch archetype is in this. The stepmother, I believe, embodies one part - the witch who eats children, of course - but also the girl, who is instructed to cook (almost taking over the role of the witch), has to adopt some of the witch's qualities in order to trap and incinerate her. - I'm interested in the bird that brought them there, and I'm not entirely sure what that might represent. -By integrating and defeating the shadow of the witch, they are able to find the peals and jewels, and go home. I'm not sure if there is an imbalance in the home in the end, as it ends with three people, but at least the influence of the devouring witch archetype seems gone, and with their riches, they will not be likely to fall into the same trap. Sleeping Beauty / Briar Rose: - Marie Louise von Franz does a better and more thorough interpretation than I might hope to achieve in her "The Feminine In Fairytales", but I believe the crux of an interpretation to this would be that sometimes evil may be encountered - either through a repressed complex - or just simply because evil exists to be encountered. There is no amount of shielding to this evil that will prevent it, and sometimes as a result life can go through a kind of psychological dormancy; the person may be especially prickly and thorny on the outside as everything seems to have ground to a halt on the inside. The only cure for this is time and patience. No amount of brute force will work. The thorns will just disappear, life will resolve itself, and everything will move forward.

We are slowly changing and the children are no longer growing up with these amazing stories, but with phones and usless content tiktok pushes on their feed... I'm gald I grew up in a time where my parents and family told me stories, and bought me farytale books 📚 ❤.

Interesting video #storyteller #magic #creative #consciousness

I noticed this vid used a few paintings of *Zdzislaw Beksinski* ... his art work amazes me. *Beksinski* has an incredible life story to represent. Also, I often listen to the audiobooks written by *G.K. Chesterton* as the mystery series *Father Brown* & these are free here on YT as are the movie shorts made from those

A good fairy tail has all the archetypes, and a love story with redemption and overcoming. It is the articulation of myth. And they are very true.

It doesn’t get better than Marie Louise von Franz. Thank you for such a beautiful presentation!

Voice on point. Good voice makes stories better 👌

My understanding of: Rumpelstiltskin The father of the daughter is our Ego and it sometimes makes claims about itself that it cannot back up( the lie about his daughter spinning straw into gold) for ridiculous reasons that to it are justified (to appear more important in front of the king). And then the person (the daughter) will have to deal with the consequences of their prior claims further down the road(the threat of death from the king). They can only use outrageous means with unknown consequences(a weird gnome with magical capabilities-who would entertain such an option on a regular day?-) to deal with the consequence of their prior lies. Again and again forced to use unorthodox and weird ways to solve their issues the person is left with no virtue or character worth praising in their inner life (she has given all her belongings to the gnome). Their risk margin consumed the person get into debt that will be cashed out in a distant future.( a psychological issue that is being suppressed, and is a time bomb). Forgetting about the way they have gotten to where they are the person enjoys their now better life(married to the king, having a newborn child). Only for it to be put into a crisis by their mental state( the gnome is back and wants its due pay). The person placates the issue through coping means and their attempts win them time only for it to come back later in a more disastrous fahsion( the gnome becomes empathetic with them but his nature does not change, he gives her time for her to fulfill what seems to be an impossible task to it). The person uses their resources and asks for help from outside in order to diagnose their issue( sends messengers all over the country to look for possible names). They find help from one of their attempts and the issue deals with itself after being accurately recognized( the gnomes name is known to someone from previous knowledge(?) And they tell the queen, the gnome is easily defeated and collapses from rage and anger). [I have not done this before, so please provide feedback on what can be improved in this interpretation.😅]

German fairy tales be like: "One day, a little boy did not eat all of his food, so Das Hodenverstümmelung came to him and obliterated his testicles. Now he has no testicles." Germa children: zzz

Your channel is probably my favorite. I keep coming back to learn more about life and reality.

Haha, I was listening to the part about the frog King while I was carving wood and there was a frog on the ground in front of me. Life is strange and beautiful, thank you! 😂🙏🐎🌅

There was a very strange feature in this case, strange because of its extremely rare occurrence. This man had once been brought to the scaffold in company with several others, and had had the sentence of death by shooting passed upon him for some political crime. Twenty minutes later he had been reprieved and some other punishment substituted; but the interval between the two sentences, twenty minutes, or at least a quarter of an hour, had been passed in the certainty that within a few minutes he must die. I was very anxious to hear him speak of his impressions during that dreadful time, and I several times inquired of him as to what he thought and felt. He remembered everything with the most accurate and extraordinary distinctness, and declared that he would never forget a single iota of the experience. ‘About twenty paces from the scaffold, where he had stood to hear the sentence, were three posts, fixed in the ground, to which to fasten the criminals (of whom there were several). The first three criminals were taken to the posts, dressed in long white tunics, with white caps drawn over their faces, so that they could not see the rifles pointed at them. Then a group of soldiers took their stand opposite to each post. My friend was the eighth on the list, and therefore he would have been among the third lot to go up. A priest went about among them with a cross: and there was about five minutes of time left for him to live. ‘He said that those five minutes seemed to him to be a most interminable period, an enormous wealth of time; he seemed to be living, in these minutes, so many lives that there was no need as yet to think of that last moment, so that he made several arrangements, dividing up the time into portions-one for saying farewell to his companions, two minutes for that; then a couple more for thinking over his own life and career and all about himself; and another minute for a last look around. He remembered having divided his time like this quite well. While saying good- bye to his friends he recollected asking one of them some very usual everyday question, and being much interested in the answer. Then having bade farewell, he embarked upon those two minutes which he had allotted to looking into himself; he knew beforehand what he was going to think about. He wished to put it to himself as quickly and clearly as possible, that here was he, a living, thinking man, and that in three minutes he would be nobody; or if somebody or something, then what and where? He thought he would decide this question once for all in these last three minutes. A little way off there stood a church, and its gilded spire glittered in the sun. He remembered staring stubbornly at this spire, and at the rays of light sparkling from it. He could not tear his eyes from these rays of light; he got the idea that these rays were his new nature, and that in three minutes he would become one of them, amalgamated somehow with them. ‘The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, ‘What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!’ He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it.’

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PUts me in the best mood when i see a new Eternalized video! loved this one!! thank you for the great content!

Fairy tales are fascinating, considering that they come from the human psyche, to explain the inexplicable. Just like a belief in gods, or a particular god, actually. One just needs faith. An interesting way to keep people within parameters.

Very nice. I'm now inspired to write an archetypical tale of my own.

Eternalized always delivers

Amazing, engrossing, enlightening as always. You are an absolute gem on KZfaq. Thank you for all the knowledge you offer!

This channel....i could listen to forever. It's just so exquisitely brilliant. Stunningly so, even. I am sincerely & desperately hooked. And after i savored every one...I know I'll simply begin them all over again, w/ the only reprieve from this cycle coming in the form of new content. And I'm so perfectly grateful & most contented with that. I listened to the one on Kafka back-to-back-to-back, 3 times over 2 days, that first day i tripped my way into the landscape of this sublime dreamworld, everything fitting together like the ticking of a ssnchronistic, metaphysical clock. Each one has been so uniquely dense & rich that it's all but a certainty every new listen will reveal a whole new symphony not experience in any previous sampling. The last time i was this drunk & wholly swept up into the creations of a particular thinker/artist/mind was 25 yrs ago, when I finally began a volume of Shakespeare completely of my own accord & without outside motive. And i was never the same .

I did the archetype test a while ago for the first time… I got a perfect split between the wise old man and the naive child. I love stories, telling them and hearing them. I hadn’t thought of that until now. Thanks for the wonderful post. 🙏🏼

Fairy tales were my 1st encounter with bizarre behavior!

This is transformative stuff. Very powerful. Thank you

It’s mysterious the correlating of individual dreams and individual stories to the ancient collective. Interpretations of fairytales is highly subjective and based on a few yet the correlations WITHIN cross cultural analysis of ancient stories never fails to inform on many levels.

These stories have an esoteric meaning. We see what God allows n what we accept. Much love

This deserves more likes.. ITS SO GOOD !!

Love your content, appreciate the effort and style of your video essays! Good luck with your lectionary career😄

Lost ancient knowledge will always resurface. Thank goodness .

your channel and analysis are the most beautiful thing on this platform

This is such a great channel. Every video is smart, profound and inspiring. Thank you for your work.🤘

Amazing work, thank you.

The three feathers story kind of resembles the story of Abel and cane and the idea that if your not willing to sacrifice the best you can find to a higher order then you pay for it in some way.

Poignant point towards the end about how folklore unlike many of our favorite shows and novels today is not meant to help us escape real life or distract us from it, but rather to enrich our real lives and our imaginations. There has been a general trend in recent history which is embodied in a more complete way by the younger generations of forgoing meaning entirely in favor of short term pleasure or even numbness. It’s a real shame but it’s not even close to everybody who’s doing it

TY. Even knowing the tales you've told, I listen to them and could reflect about my life.

Wonderful! Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for your time and effort you creating your work with. Much love❤

This channel never ceases to amaze me Fantastic content

Nice video man..and volume and images👍🏽❤🍀🙏💆‍♂️⚖️💎😤😇

i wonder if eternalized will ever become a fairytale

Allegories and archetypes....lessons we learned without realizing

Precious! Thank you.

In the end, a person who has gone through the Fourth Way, as a preparatory stage, will always be better prepared to enter Buddhism than one who lands with no previous notions. Straight from the world of fairies and sweetened imagination. #JGold #Forthway

Thanks for your videos🧠✨

“My parents aren’t home come over” Can’t babe new Eternalised just dropped

Hey man in what program di you edit your videos?

Thank you so much , I love this.

Amazing

Beautiful reminder

I think I am working backwards. I spent the first half of my life, I’m almost 34, in the inner world and I find myself more and more pulled to the outer world. Not in a greedy or monetary way though. It’s strange

Interesting stuff, thank you, your voice is very calm too 💪👍

Informative as always.

A wonderful channel thanks

Amazing ✨ amazing, it taken me to my real, deepest inner home where i am belong .

That was really good! Thank you

thank you for ur vids love them

Your content is very well done.

The Brothers Grimm are so much like Hans Christian Andersen and Aesop's Fables. Fairy Tales seem to be able reach and to explain portions of our minds and experiences where every- thing else always fails.

I hope you never get bored of making videos

I love fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Tongue twisters too

Top notch content as always

great video

I am cutting golden apples as the narrator speaks of golden apples! ✨🤯🧙

I'm actually reading The Interpretation of Fairy Tales by Marie Louise von Franz right now...

Distorted or filtered beliefs challenge an atheist or truth seeker to consistently find clarity in chaos but not a hypocrite or lost one that exploits or imposes them. Natural expression is unparalleled to manipulative tendency in imposition or exploitation.

In rumpelstiltskin, the miller is a narcissist who wants to appear more important than he is, even willing to give up his own daughter for his need. Because the daughter had a narcissistic father, she developed a huge persona (as the girl that can make gold), even trading parts of herself little by little until she has nothing left but a persona. At the end of the story the narcissistic father created a narcissistic daughter who's willing to sacrifice her own child (to Rumpelstiltskin) for her own needs. thus repeating the generational pattern.

Is it possible to write a modern fairy tale orchard our psyche evolved so much that it can't reach the collective subconscious directly anymore? Even though fairy tales are away of expressing our inner conflicts and learning about yourself, why is it that solutions often come in a form of magical or wishful thinking instead of a logical solution?

Thank you

Thank you Eternalised

I love your content, could you do ‘The Psychology of Angels’ next?

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. Albert Einstein

Such an interesting subject🫶🏻never thought i need to know about the psychology of fairytales.

Thank you for this marvelous video! It is clear that you put a lot of work into it.

My favourite story was about Osiann, Niam of the golden hair and Tir Na Nog.❤

Wonderful work...thank you very much.

Do you have a list of the illustrators and artists used in this video? I recognize many but am curious who drew the bull and the jellyfish?

Greetings: Fairy tales are nourishing to soul. Gathering around fire and gulping two bowls of spicy red bean soup. Folklore music on and listening to fairy tales. Money can't buy. Soothing at night and INITIATOR of deep DELTA wave at night and the sleep is switched on. Would watch this video at night. Wonderful Day

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The black ascend hoodie is dope

this guy is a genius. ive never learned so much from one person (living anyways) lol

Life is a Fairytale🥰

I like the one about the Knobguzzler and Mrs Funbags

I like his idea on the earthly shake.

where did you get all these fire paintings???

The brothers Grimm is the inspiration for my online aliases 😊

This channel keeps me whole❤

Could you the do the psychology of all 22 major arcana

I try to watch other creators’ vids on topics like this but it always seems so washed and unoriginal. Your narration has come a long way compared to your old vids, you’re doing a great service in teaching and enlightening people during these wicked times

I like that's idea about the hearth

Can you believe a maidens heart actually meant something ❤?

All fairytales have some truth and that's a fact 💯

*"this some deep shi bro ngl"* - me, an intellectual, understanding all levels of depth that this video has to offer, 2023.