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Pinocchio’s oral-stage fixation in Pleasure Island (Pinocchio, 1940)

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Gustave Dore’s illustrations of Little Red Riding Hood

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American child psychologist and writer Bruno Bettelheim writes about Dore’s works of Little Red Riding Hood in his The Uses of Enchantment (1976), claiming that in his illustrations Dore manges to express the underlying feelings of Little Red Riding Hood.

[discussing the illustration in which Little Res Riding Hood and the wolf are in bed together] “The wolf is depicted as rather placid. But the girl appears to be beset by powerful ambivalent feelings as she looks at the wolf resting beside her. She makes no move to leave. She seems most intrigued by the situation, attracted and repelled at the same time. The combination of feeling her face and body suggest can best be described as fascination. It is the same fascination which sex, and everything surrounding it, exercises over the child's mind. This (...) is what children feel about Red Riding Hood and the wolf and their relation, but can't tell- and is what makes the story so captivating”.

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Shadows as an exposition tool in Disney’s Peter Pan (1953)

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The Three Graces

Marble statue group of the three graces, 2nd century A.D. (retrieved from http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2010.260/), and windows penguins sample picture.

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Peter transforms into Hook, partly and then fully, in Disney’s Peter Pan (1953). It is also noteworthy that prior to the scene above, Peter mimics Hook’s voice.

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