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The child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim has written The Uses of Enchantment to argue that fairy tales offer young children a means “to master the psychological problems of growing up—overcoming narcissistic disappointments, oedipal dilemmas, sibling rivalries; becoming able to relinquish childhood dependencies; gaining a feeling of selfhood and self-worth, and a sense of moral obligation” (6) If we assume that the genre of the Young Adult novel performs a similar function for adolescents, then Jesse Andrews’ Me and Earl and the Dying Girl must be presenting some (not all) of the problems confronted by teenagers as they mature. What are some of the psychological problems revealed in the story of Greg Gaines, and how are they dramatized in the novel?
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Psychological Disorders in Greg Gaines
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Bruno Bettelheim analyzes fairy tales in psychoanalysis terms in The Uses of
Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales to show psychological...
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