Personality development theory looks at a story. This story has a central character, and other characters are the avatars of this person. The advancement of the story is the road of the person's personality development.
1. Queen: Excessive maternal instinct
This is a terrifying mother figure.
2. The Prince: Murderer
"The mother complex hurts the male instinct." (From Jung)
When I watched the movie, I actually had a suspicion that the two boys were gay.
The scene where the prince kills the queen should be seen as a symbol, or as he killed his inner mother in a dream, - not externally real, but 100% inner reality. He faced his emotions head-on, chose to kill the harmful monsters in his personality, and saved his shadow personality: another self who represented independence. Completed self-transcendence.
3. The old king: arrogant
The old king left the crowd and stayed alone in the room, which meant his closure and refusal to develop himself. Indulging in feeding a tick, excessive self-focus, thinking that no one knows your secrets, are all signs of arrogance.
Lice is the king's doppelganger, representing the animal side of him, alluding to the king's vile, greedy and arrogant way of life as a parasite. The tick-smelling savage represents an inner connection with the king, and can be seen as another avatar of the king, suggesting that his shadow personality has grown so powerful and out of control that it has taken his greatest treasure.
The princess symbolizes youth, hope, and purity. The savages took the princess and imprisoned her. So later the princess came back and saw that the king was old and sick. Unless his princess is freed, he will stay old and sick forever.
4. Little Princess: Killing Father
The father wants to keep his daughter as his own and prevent her from marrying others. This theme is a frequent visitor to fairy tales. I remember "Thousands of Animal Skins" and "Girls in Donkey Skins". Materialists are used to seeing everything as the influence of the outside world on the inside, thinking that what these stories are trying to express is the phenomenon of incest, and then they start panic and confusion. The core of these stories is actually "the psychological growth of women". The charm of these stories is that some of them do not have to appear in the external reality, do not have to speak the sinister, that is the inner adventure and transcendence, and it is good for the human mind.
5. The King: Indulgence
Some people put the focus on the two sisters, and regard it as a "palace fighting drama" and make up a lot of emotions (the audience's psychology, ,,), but I think the king is the central character. The women in the story are his anima (female personality). The act of my sister and sister is nothing more than his subconscious giving him a warning to pay attention to the time and not to be a little boy who is played by Anima forever. He should mature and grow up, and he should jump from indulgence to self-discipline.
When he found out early in the morning that he was spending the spring night with him was an old woman with a horny skin, he did not realize the irony of the whole thing, and then controlled his "excessive sexual desire". He tried to kill the old woman, but the witch (another anima) used her illusions to charm him again. Anima Victory. He was controlled again.
It ends with the escape of the sister, implying that the king's journey of self-transcendence has ended in failure, and he is back where he started: continuing to indulge.
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Reference books:
Jung's Complete Works VII Complex and Shadows
——————————————— The dividing line: If this is a story that happened in China ————————————
First of all, there are no fairy tales in China. Then I haven't heard of any masters who study human psychology in China.
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