ABSTRACT
This part conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters. The part discusses the author’s dream of cross-cultural fairy tales, from the point of view of the western discipline of object relations psychoanalysis. In this view, Sleeping Beauty and Meng Jiang Nu can both be understood as representing cultural myths that give a form of analytic truth to underlying cultural issues. The part provides a point of view derived from, and so representing, western psychoanalysis as a way of understanding myths of both East and West. It constructs the point that Sleeping Beauty’s dream is actually the author’s dream, the elaboration of a western analyst now steeped in China, fabricating a new way of understanding the meeting of East and West. The part begins by following Fairbairn, with his object relations theory of the conscious and the unconscious, where love and hate provide contradictory sides of human personality.
