Tuesdays: February 11, 18, 25, 2025, 7-9 pm EST (4-6 pm PST)

Live Video Seminars (Video recording will be available)

The Daughter’s Individuation Quest

In the fairy tales Beauty and the Beast, Donkey Skin, and The Courageous Girl, the father makes a crucial mistake, one that has important consequences for his daughter's destiny.

In Beauty and the Beast, the father gets lost in the forest. He suddenly sees a seemingly uninhabited mansion and enters, but it is the castle of the Beast. Wanting to please Belle, his daughter, the father plucks a rose. This rose is the dearest thing the Beast has in the world. In exchange for the father's freedom, the Beast demands that Belle come and live with him.

In Donkey Skin, the father wants to marry his daughter. Desperate, she escapes, hidden under the skin of the castle donkey.

In The Courageous Girl, a tale from Tadzhikistan, the father is sick and getting blind. His daughter goes off on a perilous journey in search of medicine that will help him regain his health, see again and value the Feminine.

Each seminar is devoted to the analysis of a tale and its different adaptations in cinema, literature and pictorial art.

For more information and to register, visit https://www.jungarchademy.com/pomes2025