A review by ketreads
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim

Did not finish book. Stopped at 32%.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the premise and the first couple of case studies. After awhile Bruno Bettelheim seems to conflate all fairy tales to either Freudian explanations or some form of the Oedipus complex. After about 100 pages of the same repetitive assessments, it become clear this was his only take on fantasies and their subconscious meaning to children.