The story of Jack and the Beanstalk is a story that we've all heard as North Americans.

We know that story quite well.

So I thought it would be interesting to explore that story to look at its structure, to look at the symbolism inherent in it.

And also it will help us to see a certain perspective on symbolism, certain perspective on hierarchy, which is the manner in which

hierarchy can prevent, let's say, things from higher above from reaching us, something like that.

So it's an aspect of hierarchy that I haven't looked at so much, and so I hope that it'll be a good

occasion to talk about that.

This is Jonathan Pajot.

Welcome to the symbolic world.

Thank you. Welcome to the Symbolic World. The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk can be brought into very simple elements. You know, there are different versions of it, of course, but the most known version, the one we remember, I'm going to tell it very briefly.

A young boy lives with his mother.

He's an orphan.

His mother is quite poor.

And, you know, they're starving.

They have nothing to eat.

And finally, his mother, you know, all they have is this one cow.

And they're at the end of their rope.

And finally, his mother tells him, you know, go and sell our cow so that we can eat, you know, for one last time.

And then we can die, something like that.

And so Jack goes out and he goes out with a cow in order to sell it at the market and hoping to be able to buy some food.

But on the way, Jack meeks a strange old man.

And the strange old man suggests that maybe Jack should trade his cow for these magic beans.

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