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NEWS
February 20,1986
Folklore
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"Why on earth would you analyze one,
let alone a false one," said Dundes. "This
is incredibly naive and produces errone-
Dundes said both Carl Jung and Freud
have tried to determine where these folk¬
tales and "fantasies"came from. Jung said
these tales are pre-culturally inherited. He
said humans are born with them, much
like body organs. Dundes said in Jung's
attempts to prove his research, he had no
worldwide evidence, making it "absolute
"This symbolism is explicit
in folktales."
— Dundes
Freud, on the other hand, believed
these tales appear instinctively, that they
are part of a philo-genetic endowment. Dundes
said Freud originally thought of folklore
wayol
ing mil
"Folklore can help you understand psy¬
chology because folklore is people's fanta¬
sies," Dundes said.
Dundes explained a study done by
Freud and a Viennese mythologist named
Oppenheim about dreams and folklore.
Folktales in which there were dreams were
studied and the dreams were interpre-
r  by t
young children relate bowel i
with the birth of a baby.
Dundes said even in speech, especially
slang expressions, this symbolism is seen.
"Money and feces, are symbolically
related. What do you call someone who
has a lot of money? Filthy rich, rolling in it
money up.... You dont have to be a Freu¬
dian to figure this out,"he said. "Even our
military has an expression for payday —
the day the eagle shits."
Dundes also showed this symbolism in
the lunar landing. Apollo, the Sun God in
mythology, had a brother/ sister relation¬
ship with the moon. The craft Apollos goal
The problem, Dundes said, was to build
group? Nobody knows and no one cares
Dundes said.
"I wonder what Freud would have
thoght of my lunar landing analyses — I
think he would have like it."
Dundes received his folklore doctorate
from the University of Indiana, which at
the time was the only university that had a
"Money and feces are
symbolically related."
"This symbolism is explicit in fol
How many of you know this jum
Fudge, fudge, tell the judge
Mama's got a brand new baby.
>,,bs
First floor, second floor, etc "
Dundes said this shows an expn
>f sibling rivalry and that fudge is
folklore program. Now there are four uni¬
versities which offer them.
"I've always enjoyed folklore without
knowing what it is." Dundes said. "I
always liked fairytales and jokes but I
Folklore consists of different genres
including myths, legends, folksongs, folk
medicine and folktales. Dundes didn't
study one particular genre or
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