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Bruno Bettelheim "yodeling" too much
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Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed
throughout:The town of Kopenick and Bruno Bettelheim
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The Köpenickiade of "Dr" Bettelheim
'DR' BRUNO
Bettelheim was a great and rare academic case, in part according to the essence of the
word Köpenickiade: it is a swindle. The word comes from the German town Köpenick and
a famous incident there back in 1906.The farce in the German town Köpenick
In 1906 the Berliner Wilhelm Voigt, a shoemaker that was out of work, arrived at the town Köpenick dressed up in a military uniform he had bought but wasn't allowed to wear. He found a unit of the Guards to accompany him - he had a commanding voice. They went to the town hall. He had the mayor and other local authorities put to jail, and seized the public funds of 4000 DM. Then he disappeared.A film that starred him was made after he came out of jail after the rude and quite black comedy that ridiculed gross obedience and servility to authoritarian performance.
Köpenick and Bruno Bettelheim
The Vienna-born, Jewish psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim became rather embarrassing towards the end of his life, because of his false university credentials from Vienna, etc. Years before that he had risen in public and academic circles in the United States to become a professor of education and of psychology at the University of Chicago some years after he was released from a Nazi concentration camp in 1939, the year he emigrated to the United States.A professor from 1952, he concerned himself with applying psychoanalytic principles to social problems, especially linked up to rearing of children and dealing all right with them too.
One of his basic stands is that fairy tales are important for young children to work out natural feelings that they might have about life and relationships with such as peers, family members or others.
And one of his most influential books is The Uses of Enchantment (1976). It is about possibly helpful uses of fairy tales - of telling them to children (and not living them out in Chicago in front of the public). In his book Dr. Bettelheim argues that fairy tales can be important in child development, and asserts that the apparently cruel and arbitrary nature of many folk fairy stories is actually an instructive reflection of the child's natural and necessary "killing off" of grand submissions or concerns through some phases that come after one another in a growing sulk or better.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. [Gore Vidal]
Two Analysts
"I used to be Snow White . . . but I drifted. [Mae West]Not all of Dr. Bettelheim's striking viewpoints are considered solid or helpful today. Nor is his "doctor's title from Vienna. Quote:
His reputation was ... clouded by revelations that he had invented his Viennese academic credentials and that he had abused and misdiagnosed a number of the children under his care at the Orthogenic School [at the University of Chicago] - Britannica Online, s.v. "Bruno Bettelheim".
It is interesting that the very famous psychoanalyst and Harvard professor Erik
Homburger Erikson was not a doctor either. He too became a professor in the United States
after emigrating from Europe; he was welcomed at Harvard and wrote influential books.
And he did not invent any academic credentials for it. That was good!
The reputation which the world bestowsMORE: Follow the link to an article about fairy tale thinking linked up to Bettelheim sights: [Check]
is like the wind, that shifts now here now there,
its name changed with the quarter from where it blows.- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): Divina Commedia 'Purgatorio'.
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