Therapy Through Faёrie
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Therapy Through Faёrie

Therapeutic Properties of Fantasy Literature by the Inklings and by U. K. Le Guin

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Therapy Through Faёrie

Therapeutic Properties of Fantasy Literature by the Inklings and by U. K. Le Guin

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This book argues that the fantasy fiction rooted in J. R. R. Tolkien's concept of Fa?rie, as represented by the fantasy works of the Inklings and of U. K. Le Guin, has certain psychotherapeutic properties. Fa?rie'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 Fa?rie, whose bibliotherapeutic potential rests on its generic marks, identified by Tolkien as Fantasy, Recovery, Escape (breaking free from incarcerating meaninglessness), Consolation, and (cathartic) Eucatastrophe.

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Publisher
Peter Lang Group
Year
2017
ISBN
9783653066425
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Chapter One The Inklings, Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, and Faërie
  5. Chapter Two: Difficult relationships: Inklingsiana and the mainstream of modernism
  6. Chapter Three: From neo-nihilism to logotherapy
  7. Chapter Four: (Logo)therapy through narrative
  8. Chapter Five: Art therapy through Faërie according to the Inklings and to U. K. Le Guin – an artistic intermezzo
  9. Chapter Six: Mythopathy, logotherapy and (non)sensopaedia or the psychotherapeutic properties of high fantasy ethos, as reflected in the works of the Inklings and of U. K. Le Guin
  10. Chapter Seven: Therapy through catharsis – eucatastrophic Consolation of Faërie
  11. Coda
  12. Selected bibliography