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chirons
daughter
Registered User
(8/11/03 4:51 pm)
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Red Feather
I'm doing a little analysis of an old-ish American literary fairy tale by Marjorie Fischer called "Red Feather," published in the 1930s. It's a changeling story. The analysis is narrowly defined at the moment by Freud's theory about the "romance of the family" and Kohut's ideas about the self and the twin, which oddly enough actually works, but I'd like to take it further eventually. The story is in novel form; I read it as a child and frankly identified with it very strongly (isn't that what we do?).
I wonder if any of you is familiar with the book, and what ideas you have about it? There's nothing much about it on the web, but I figured if it is not familiar to someone here, then probably to nobody, nowhere.
Edited by: chirons daughter at: 8/11/03 6:26 pm
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chirons
daughter
Registered User
(8/12/03 1:28 pm)
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changeling?
I searched the site just now (and I hope I did it properly), and I find no references to the keyword "changeling." It's hard to believe, but -- does anyone have a suggestion as to another keyword or topic area that might bring up relevant material?
Thanks!
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Kerrie
Moderator
(8/12/03 3:56 pm)
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Old threads....
This thread includes my posting listing a few other threads about changelings:
Changelings
It's in the archives, not a current topic, which are located on the main SurLaLune site:
SurLaLune
Fairy Tale Pages
The topic has found its way into several threads, but the ones listed might help the most.
Dandelion wishes,
Kerrie
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chirons
daughter
Registered User
(8/12/03 4:29 pm)
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finding changelings
Thanks so much, Kerrie. I must not have done the search right. It's interesting, the conflation there is between the concepts of changeling and shapeshifter. . . The Terri Windling piece is very useful and absorbing to read.
My changeling is a fairy infant who is supposed to be left with mortals so the fairies can exchange her for a future parlormaid (fairies can't do housework well), but the fairies mess up and take their own baby back, so a very magical fairy child grows up miserable in fairyland thinking she's mortal and unable to do magic, until her quest for identity begins.
Not unlike Harry Potter in a way, now that I think of it.
But that's the point of the romance of the child: "I know I came from someplace more special than this, and from far more special people, and someday the truth will out." If Freud is right, it's a fairly common accommodation for imaginative children hitting Oedipal constraints and falling out of love for a while with their idealized parents.
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