Dwa oblicza „cierniowej różyczki”. Baśń o śpiącej królewnie w psychoanalitycznej interpretacji stefanii bornstein
Two faces of “Briar Rose”. The fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty in psychoanalytical interpretation by Stefanie Bornstein

Summary/Abstract: The paper shows the scientific and private life of Stefanie Bornstein, a forgotten Freudian of Polish descent, the author of, among others, a psychoanalytical study on the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty published in 1933 in “Imago”. It is a precursory text in regards to the approach proposed forty years later by Bruno Bettelheim in the famous monograph The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. The comparative analysis shows that Bornstein’s essay Das Märchen vom Dornröschen in psychoanalytischer Darstellung was for Bettelheim without a doubt, despite being only barely acknowledged, a source of inspiration; it also proves that the author, writing and publishing in the American reality of the 70s, in many regards “tamed” the much braver, from today standpoint almost feminist interpretation proposed by his predecessor.

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