Hello, everybody. So in the past, I have told or read stories for children and offered an analysis.

And I recently released a new episode of that sort discussing the Grimm's brothers Snow White. And people seem pretty happy with that.

I'll read you a couple of comments. Can we have a whole psychoanalytic series on fairy tales?

So many hidden lessons. It also reminds me of the Peterson lectures I listened to on the Lion King, Peter Pan and Pinocchio.

That was some years ago.

Yes, more of these.

Please do more of these.

All the best from the UK.

Story time with Dr. Peterson.

Too awesome.

Well, the episode proved quite popular,

and people's responses were very positive and i like doing

narrative analysis um and so we're going to try another one today hansel and gretel and you all know

that story so we'll see how it goes hard by a great forest dwelt a poor woodcutter with his wife and two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. He had little to bite and to break. And once, when great scarcity fell in the land, he could no longer procure daily bread. Now when he thought this over by night in his bed and tossed about in his anxiety,

he groaned and said to his wife, more about her in a moment.

What is to become of us?

How are we to feed our poor children when we no longer have anything even for ourselves?

Now, you see, there's something troublesome right there already because his priorities are

backwards. He says, when we no longer have anything even for ourselves, well, a father with his

priorities right would be more concerned about his children's hunger than his own.

And so the teller of the tale, the writer, the author of the tale sets up the situation for us with

that foolishness. This woodcutter is selfish and as we'll see also weak, and that places his children at great risk.

...