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“This quandary of standing between reality principle and pleasure principle is explicitly stated when the wolf says to Little Red Cap: “See how pretty the flowers are which are all around you. Why don’t you look about?
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The idea that “Little Red Cap” deals with the child’s ambivalence about whether to live by the pleasure principle or the reality principle is borne out by the fact that Red Cap stops gathering flowers only “when she had collected so many that she could not carry any more.” At that moment Little Red Cap “once more remembered Grandmother and set out on the way to her.” That is, only when picking flowers is no longer enjoyable does the pleasure-seeking id recede and Red Cap become aware of her obligations.*”
--- Bruno Bettelheim. “The Uses of Enchantment.”
this is the same quandary that the Three Little Pigs face separately on their own, and allocate their time according to their preferences. Here, though, the wolf (werewolf) is actively exploiting the difficulty of the choice, rather than simply taking advantage of "given" lazy little pigs 1 & 2.
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The idea that “Little Red Cap” deals with the child’s ambivalence about whether to live by the pleasure principle or the reality principle is borne out by the fact that Red Cap stops gathering flowers only “when she had collected so many that she could not carry any more.” At that moment Little Red Cap “once more remembered Grandmother and set out on the way to her.” That is, only when picking flowers is no longer enjoyable does the pleasure-seeking id recede and Red Cap become aware of her obligations.*”
--- Bruno Bettelheim. “The Uses of Enchantment.”
this is the same quandary that the Three Little Pigs face separately on their own, and allocate their time according to their preferences. Here, though, the wolf (werewolf) is actively exploiting the difficulty of the choice, rather than simply taking advantage of "given" lazy little pigs 1 & 2.