Initiation and Meaning in the Tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Abstract

The psychology of Snow White: What does she hope for? Someday my prince will come. By this Snow White means that she lives her own being as incomplete, pending the arrival of one who will complete her. That is, she lives her own being as not-with (even though she is in some sense with the seven men, Bill, Kevin, Clem, Hubert, Henry, Edward and Dan). But the not-with is experienced as stronger, more real, at this particular instance of time, than the being-with. ... [or] in the area of fears, she fears