Therapy Through Faёrie : Therapeutic Properties of Fantasy Literature by the Inklings and by U. K. Le Guin (Hardcover)

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The book views fantasy fiction rooted in J. R. R. Tolkien s concept of Faёrie in terms of its psychotherapeutic properties akin to Victor Frankl s logotherapy. Therapy through Faёrie in the works of the Inklings and of U.K. Le Guin seems to rest on the genre s embedment in logos moral imagination and cathartic Eucatastrophe. This book argues that the fantasy fiction rooted in J. R. R. Tolkien s concept of Faёrie as represented by the fantasy works of the Inklings and of U. K. Le Guin has certain psychotherapeutic properties. Faёrie s generic ethos seems to draw on moral imagination and on logos (meaning and word) which informs its secondary worlds and encourages a search for an unconditional sense of life against the postmodern neo-nihilistic aporia. The book postulates an applicability of logotherapy ( therapy through meaning developed after WW2 by Victor Frankl ) to the workings of Faёrie whose bibliotherapeutic potential rests on its generic marks identified by Tolkien as Fantasy Recovery Escape (breaking free from incarcerating meaninglessness) Consolation and (cathartic) Eucatastrophe.