Snow White

How can I get back the life I believed was lost?” Theodor Seifert sees this as the central question in the fairy tale “Snow White.”For the psychotherapist it is a daily experience to hear patients say they “feel dead,” that “life is passing [them] by,” that they are “spectators but not participants.” Seifert views the fairy tale as a wellspring of wisdom where one can find trustworthy solutions to problems. The central problem he treats in his interpretation of “Snow White” is relationship: “Can my frozen feelings come to life again?” “Can I make a new beginning, or must I live out a living death?”Theodor Seifert, Ph.D., is an author and Jungian analyst in Stuttgart, West Germany. He is a training analyst in the German Society for Analytical Psychology and the general editor of a series of psychological studies on fairy tales, of which this is the first volume.Table of Contents"SNOW WHITE"INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER I In the Middle of Winter CHAPTER II Snowflakes in Winter: Small, Scarcely Perceptible Feelings and HopesCHAPTER III Only a Queen ... : Constrictions and BiasesCHAPTER IV A Window Framed in Black: The View from MourningCHAPTER V The Queen Was Sewing: The Hint of Something NewCHAPTER VI The Prick of the Needle: The Call of LifeCHAPTER VII Three Drops of Blood in the Snow: The Great ConflictCHAPTER VIII The Child: Transformation and New BeginningCHAPTER IX The Death of the Queen: Responsibility and ConcernCHAPTER X The New Spouse: Reestablishing an Old ConditionCHAPTER XI "Mirror, Mirror, Here I Stand": Self-Condemnation for Better or WorseCHAPTER XII "A Thousand Times More Beautiful": Isolation or CommunityCHAPTER XIII In the Wild Forest: The Secret Life of the SoulCHAPTER XIV With the Dwarfs: Hidden GrowthCHAPTER XV Deception and Poison: The Battle for Life, Love, and DeathCHAPTER XVI The Glass Coffin: Between Life and DeathCHAPTER XVII A King's Son Comes into the Forest: Encounter, Sacrifice, TreasureCHAPTER XVIII You Are with Me: Rooted in One's Own EarthCHAPTER XIX "She Got so Terrified, so Terrified": The Seed of EvilChapter XX The Red-Hot Shoes: Collective and Cold Heat