Author(s): Arzu KORUCU
Despite the term ‘violence’ associates the force which strong and powerful people use against the weak in order to have their ways, there lies a deeper truth beneath the surface. According to Erich Fromm, it is possible to say that violence actually stems from impotency or different kinds of weakness and feeling of deficiency. Hence, the origin of violence is psychological. From this point of view, it can be clearly noticed that violence has begun to lose its male character and gains a new and female attribution when examined under the light of some recent researches regarding myths, fairy tales and some religious narratives as the indicators of behavioural patterns in time immemorial. In these narratives, women can also apply violence, even to women. Especially in some famous fairy tales like Jorinda and Joringel, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Snow White, the female violence against female figures becomes strikingly obvious. So, in this study we have turned our perspective to the feminine world in these fairy tales and have tried to analyse the female violence victimizing the heroines by using some theories of analytical psychology and psychoanalysis.
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