Short Story -The Little Red Riding Hood - psychological aspect

The Little Red Riding Hood

Once upon a time there was a little girl called Little Red Riding Hood. After the early death of her father, she was a single child pushed into a replacement role by her mother which completely overwhelmed her because of her youth.

The missing role model in her life which would have been needed for forming a strong identity caused the basis for a hysterically depressed adolescent.

One day, her mother told Little Red Riding Hood to bring the daily dose of psychotropic drugs to her hypochondriac grandmother, who was tied up -metaphorically - by her psychosomatically induced hip disease.

The girl had a low attention span and no sense of urgency leading to her mother reminding her not to get distracted but to go directly and without detours towards her grandmother's hut.

Little Red Riding Hood obeyed until she met a large unkempt wolf in the wood. Because of her prepubescent naivete, she did not realize his strong impulse for overcompensation manifesting as aggressiveness. He made the suggestion to pick a bouquet of pretty flowers from the nearby meadow, as a general social symbol of affection it would mitigate the old woman's fear of not really being loved. As the naive girl began to pick flowers, according to her personal color preferences, the wolf then made his way to the grandmother's house and his aggressive energy discharged spontaneously by eating the old woman immediately. When Little Red Riding Hood entered the hut, she did not notice - for self-protection already dulled in dealing with the ailing woman - any changes.

she became intuitively aware of only one insignificant externality and so she asked: „Grandmother, why do you have such big eyes? "

„The better to analyze your body language with. "

„But grandmother, why do you have such big ears? "

„The better to understand your fears with. "

„And why do you have such a big mouth? "

„The better to give you hints for your self-discovery and reflection with. "

Spoken these words, the wolf devoured the poor girl and fell into a dreamless sleep immediately, knocked out by stress-induced overindulgence.

It has come to pass that at the same time S. Freud was tracking down the origin of the superego he suspected very close to this hut. When he heard the loud snoring of the wolf, he immediately felt that only a being with a strong schizoid expression could make such sounds.

Always on the lookout for meaningful examples for his new book, he entered the cabin, cautiously awoke the wolf and promised him 50 hours of free therapy

If he were to tell him his life story. The following is a frightening example of the effects of intrafamilial tensions on the development of a previously innocent puppy. As a minnow of only a few weeks his father left the pack and the mother began a relationship with a dreaded Pitbull Terrier from downtown.

His rough and brutal manners towards the puppies had a lasting effect on its tender-sensitive emotional life. Since they did not find the necessary atmosphere of security in the aftermath to develop a basic trust in life, the very first self-discovery remained, and it created a deep distrust of the world and the permanent feeling to have to defend itself.

The latent inability to communicate adequately prevented the later psychosocial self-discovery. After two failed attempts at hypnosis, several drawings and very intense conversations, however, the master of psychoanalysis managed to address the compassionate ego of the wolf, who had been hiding so long from the world, and he vomited just in time to regurgitate Little Red Riding Hood and his grandmother alive, a perfect metaphor of how he was feeling towards his emotional state.

After several years of therapy, Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother finally succeeded in overcoming their reasonable claustrophobia.

The misjudged and misunderstood wolf, however, could not live with his guilt. Even inpatient treatment did not prevent him from indulging in self-destructive behavior and the first emergence from his chambers ultimately lead to him plunging into the clinics private well.

The End