Riddles as a Community Psychological Phenomenon in Folklore: Myths, Fairytales, Personal Literature Art
Riddles as a Community Psychological Phenomenon in Folklore: Myths, Fairytales, Personal Literature Art

Summary/Abstract: The paper is an attempt to review riddles as a community psychologicalphenomenon, through the point of view of the analytical psychology of C.G. Jung, M. Eliade, E. Durkheim’s conception about sacred and profane and the conception of S. Arieti about concept and endocept.There is also a review of neck riddles as similar to the ritual of initiation, fortune telling, other community phenomena, and as a way to reach individuation, the Self.

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