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Symbolic image · Scene and movement

Imprisonment in the tales

One tale in the collection where the image of imprisonment appears. In the app, every symbol comes with its symbolic translation and every tale with four readings.

Maid Maleen

Maid Maleen

Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm · Germany

A princess is walled up in a tower by her own father for refusing another marriage. When she finally gets out, the kingdom lies in ruins, and she goes to work in the kitchen of the palace where her betrothed lives.

Images that appear alongside

  • Tower
  • Total darkness
  • Light
  • Seven years
  • Kitchen knife
  • Hunger scene
  • Wedding clothing
  • Identity exchange

What the app opens

In Dovor, every tale comes in full, with four readings written for it.

  • Psychoanalytic readingdesires, lacks, defences and repetitions
  • Analytical readingconflicts, compensations and transformation
  • Archetypal readinguniversal images, figures and motifs
  • Phenomenological observationearth, water, air and fire
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