American Jungian analyst who was a student of Marie-Louise von Franz and has written on fairy tale analysis and alchemy in the Jungian tradition — extending the von Franz methodology of Jungian fairy tale interpretation.
Transmits the von Franz methodology of Jungian fairy tale analysis — applying the method that von Franz developed (each figure and motif in a fairy tale represents an aspect of the psyche) to new tales — maintaining the detailed symbolic interpretation that distinguishes the Zurich school from Jungian literary criticism.
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