Snow White

<p>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.”</p><p>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?”</p><p><strong>Theodor Seifert Ph.D.</strong> 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.</p><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><p>"SNOW WHITE"</p><p>INTRODUCTION</p><p>CHAPTER I In the Middle of Winter CHAPTER II Snowflakes in Winter: Small Scarcely Perceptible Feelings and Hopes</p><p>CHAPTER III Only a Queen ... : Constrictions and Biases</p><p>CHAPTER IV A Window Framed in Black: The View from Mourning</p><p>CHAPTER V The Queen Was Sewing: The Hint of Something New</p><p>CHAPTER VI The Prick of the Needle: The Call of Life</p><p>CHAPTER VII Three Drops of Blood in the Snow: The Great Conflict</p><p>CHAPTER VIII The Child: Transformation and New Beginning</p><p>CHAPTER IX The Death of the Queen: Responsibility and Concern</p><p>CHAPTER X The New Spouse: Reestablishing an Old Condition</p><p>CHAPTER XI "Mirror Mirror Here I Stand": Self-Condemnation for Better or Worse</p><p>CHAPTER XII "A Thousand Times More Beautiful": Isolation or Community</p><p>CHAPTER XIII In the Wild Forest: The Secret Life of the Soul</p><p>CHAPTER XIV With the Dwarfs: Hidden Growth</p><p>CHAPTER XV Deception and Poison: The Battle for Life Love and Death</p><p>CHAPTER XVI The Glass Coffin: Between Life and Death</p><p>CHAPTER XVII A King's Son Comes into the Forest: Encounter Sacrifice Treasure</p><p>CHAPTER XVIII You Are with Me: Rooted in One's Own Earth</p><p>CHAPTER XIX "She Got so Terrified so Terrified": The Seed of Evil</p><p>Chapter XX The Red-Hot Shoes: Collective and Cold Heat</p>