October 1st: Notes on Hans my Hedgehog

creator: Jim Henson
-motifs:
-East of the Sun; West of the Moon; Beauty and the Beast
-Book of Judges; Jeptha's daughter (sacrificial child)
-rash promises
-transformation/beautiful the way you are
-3 iron shoes, 3 days wait, the #3
-passing of property from one man to another (marriage and abdubction)
--part of patriarchal family given to another pat. family.
-No kids; the Monster baby; the Inner Monster; Oedpial complex
--Freud puts the Oedipal stage as occurring between 3-5 years. He considers it a stage where the child experiences an erotic attachment to one parent and hostility toward the other parent. The ensuing triangular tension is seen as being the root of most mental disorders. Freud cites the incest taboo as as at the root of many other prohibitions. He sees the struggle against this as a core part of this development period with transgressions in practice and phantasy. 'We cannot get away from the assumption that man's sense of guilt springs from the Oedipus complex and was acquired at the killing of the father by the brothers banned together'. (Freud, 1930) Freud links the Oedipus complex with development the superego, which uses guilt to prevent continuation of incestuously oriented relationships. Failure to get past this trigger point and into the symbolic order is considered to be a classic cause of lasting neurosis.

-Year and a day
-formulas (language)
-starting with hello ending with 'goodbye'
-isolation (black sheep)
-beast marriage and folklore studies
--Chaucer's Canturbury Tales- women is the beast