In his book, The Uses of Enchantment, Bruno Bettelheim analyses fairy tales in terms of Freudian psychoanalysis and he defends that fairy tales help children solve existential problems such separation anxiety, oedipal conflict, and sibling rivalries. Children are not yet prepared to deal with the existencial issues' meanings simply because they still lack experience to comprehend life's events themselves. It is different to approach a child with life meanings than an adult fo

"I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. But they answered: frightened? Why should anyone be frightened by a hat?" The Little Prince. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The "hat" was actually meant to be a boa constrictor digesting an elephant, it was made by a child who had his talent discouraged by grown-ups. "Stick with the numbers" they said, "Practice a more mature hobby". It's funny how some children get to grow up and other