ХРАСТОВИТОСТ ЖИРА ИЛИ: О ТЕМИ ИНИЦИЈАЦИЈЕ У СРПСКОЈ НАРОДНОЈ БАЈЦИ ИЗ УГЛА ПСИХОЛОГИЈЕ
THE ELEMENTS OF THE RITUAL OF INITIATION IN SERBIAN FOLK TALES AND HILLMANS PSYCHOANALITIC APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: A psychological approach to the elements of initiation in the world of fairy tales heroes is based on the study „The Soul’s Code“ by James Hillman, and it proposes one possible decoded message of a fantastic story as a specifically coded text. The reanimation of the ancient ideas of Socrates and Plato about Daimon and Ananke has enabled the setting a major message in the form of a user’s manual for life. Miraculous supporters and favourable circumstances have been interpreted as the embodiment of Daimon, a secret personal companion, angel savior, Socrates’ internal voice that knows the insignia on the acorn of each and every individual destiny. The enemies of the fairy tale heroes would be the embodyment of Ananke, Necessity. The heroin of the fairy tale „The Father and His Daughters“ (Čajkanović, 62) has been analysed as a radical model of discovering her self-paradigm, written in the acorn of the „oak-like“ life trajectory.The behavioural pattern of the heroine is influenced by the actions of Necessity who is always defined by aggression and despotism. In this manner the tale could be understood as a catalogue of all the right approaches to life: a defiance of boundaries, an open display of wrath, a denial of imposed identity, a distancing from the original status, permanent vigilance, alertness ti fight personal passions, sharpness and quickness in fighting Stupidity (Giants), and the accomplishment of a higher purpose in the shape of acquiring spiritual maturity, wisdom and tranquility. This kind of an approach in interpreting the elements of initiation provides an opportunity to consider the higher purpose of narration, and that is to support the weak, crestfallen or slumbering to face the forgotten meaning of the mark written in the acorn of their own oak-like destiny.

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