Therapy Through Faёrie
Therapeutic Properties of Fantasy Literature by the Inklings and by U. K. Le Guin
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Beschreibung
The book views fantasy fiction rooted in J. R. R. Tolkien’s concept of Faёrie in terms of its psychotherapeutic properties, akin to Victor Frankl’s logotherapy. Therapy through Faёrie in the works of the Inklings and of U.K. Le Guin seems to rest on the genre’s embedment in logos, ‘moral imagination’ and cathartic Eucatastrophe.
This book argues that the fantasy fiction rooted in J. R. R. Tolkien’s concept of Faёrie, as represented by the fantasy works of the Inklings and of U. K. Le Guin, has certain psychotherapeutic properties. Faёrie’s generic ‘ethos’ seems to draw on ‘moral imagination’ and on logos (meaning and word), which informs its secondary worlds and encourages a search for an unconditional sense of life, against the postmodern neo-nihilistic aporia. The book postulates an applicability of logotherapy (‘therapy through meaning’, developed after WW2 by Victor Frankl,) to the workings of Faёrie, whose bibliotherapeutic potential rests on its generic marks, identified by Tolkien as Fantasy, Recovery, Escape (breaking free from incarcerating meaninglessness), Consolation, and (cathartic) Eucatastrophe.
Autor*in
Anna Cholewa-Purgal
Themen in »Therapy Through Faёrie«
Bibliotherapy Catharsis Cholewa Fantasy Faёrie Genre studies Guin Inklings Literary studies Literature Logotherapy Properties Psychology Purgal Therapeutic