What is?

What is a child?
A child consists of a person that is void of responsibility and care free. They are a social group that lives life to its purest form; just to have fun.

What is a book?
A book is any work, fiction or non-fiction, that is made up of at least a couple pages.

What is nature?
I look at nature as anything that isn't man-made.

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

notes for September 29th

Self; shadow; anime/animus... a meeting of the minds, the balancing of principles, yin, yang, male, female, conscious and subconscious...resevoirs of boundless energy...

Equus Animus Anime Equus

"Don't read the times, read the eternities" (in class)

-collective unconscious- the following is a picture of Jung's collection of the collective unconscious...


Here is a good link to the explanation of Jung's collective unconscious:http://www.kheper.net/topics/Jung/collective_unconscious.html

Interpret at all levels- Bozeman Daily Chronicle to Euripeteas

assignment for friday: What is a child? What is a book? What is nature?

Notes for September 17th

Child and Young Adult Lit. Notes
Jane Eyre like Rapunzel: fairytales may be hiding in everything we do.

"Only Connect" - make the connections.

Mississippi Review - "Man Reading" by Michael Sexson

history/herstory hysterical relates to hysterectomy

4 levels:
1) literal level (first level; usually level when young and as you get older you move up levels)
2) structural pattern
3)anthropological
4) cosmological

"I'm not history; I'm mythology" Aladdin


Triple Goddess ( in fairytales- most feared witch, enchantress, or what have you)

Timeline of Fairytales and Nursery Rhymes

9th century:
"Cinderella" (China)

12th:
"London Bridge is Falling Down"

15th:
"Humpty Dumpty"

16th:
"Little Miss Muffet"
"*** in Boots" (Italy)
"Little Jack Horner"
"Hey Diddle Diddle" (Europe)
"Hark, Hark, The Dogs Do Bark"

I was searching for a time line of fairy tales and ran across this page. It lists the beginning (at least of popularity) that each fairy tale or nursery rhyme began. Its interesting to see which ones supposedly were created before others and also how many look familiar to me; I count a total of 34 and I recognize around 30 of them.

After scanning through some pictures on the internet it is surprising to see how many different depictions of fairy tales exist. I have found everything from jokes to horror scenes to basically soft core porn, all involving the same fairy tales most of us grew up on.

The funnier side

Here are just a few jokes involving fairy tales. I thought after some of the darker discussions in class, a joke or two would be nice.