# Wishfulfillment and Symbolism in Fairy Tales

Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series No. 21
WISHFULFILLMENT AND SYMBOLISM IN FAIRY TALES
BY
DR. FRANZ RICKLIN OF ZURICH
AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION BY
DR. WM. A. WHITE of Washington, D. C.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS. :
CHAPTER I. :
| Introduction | ​ | 1 |
CHAPTER II. :
| Wish Structures and their Forms | ​ | 4 |
CHAPTER III. :
| The Wish Structure of the Fairy Tale | ​ | 12 |
CHAPTER IV. :
| Symbolism | ​ | 24 |
CHAPTER V. :
| The Symbolism of the Fairy Tale | ​ | 33 |
CHAPTER VI. :
| Transposition Upward. Infantilism | ​ | 51 |
CHAPTER VII. :
| Some Special Sexual Fairy-Tale Motives | ​ | 65 |
| Index | ​ | 83 |
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