From the author: An article about fairy tale scenarios. About how a favorite childhood fairy tale influences adult life. A favorite fairy tale in childhood can influence the rest of your life. Just as we unconsciously absorb the life scenarios of our parents, the plot of a fairy tale also influences the choice of our own life path. Jungian psychologist Hans Diekmann wrote that a person can become “stuck” in a fairy tale, repeating its patterns over and over again. A fairy tale can be seen as an internal reality. The main character or heroine is the “I” of a person. Usually in a fairy tale there are two Worlds: the ordinary, material and magical, the World of the Unconscious. It is presented in the form of a Forest, an Underwater Kingdom, a space inside a well, etc. At the beginning of the fairy tale, there comes a time of crisis, internal conflict, when it is still impossible to live. The hero or heroine embarks on a dangerous journey, as a result of which he undergoes changes, acquires new qualities, integrates part of the Unconscious and at the end of the fairy tale, if he is lucky, unites with his soul mate - the fairy tale ends with a wedding symbolizing Wholeness. The hero or heroine at the beginning of the fairy tale and at the end are two different people; the fairy tale at the symbolic level shows the process of transformation, changes that have occurred with the hero. An analogue of such changes in real life can be extreme experiences, psychotherapy, etc. There are “women’s” and “men’s” fairy tales, depending on who is the main character of the story. For example, “The Frog Princess”, “Ivan the Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf” are men’s fairy tales. Next we will look at several typically “female” fairy tales and describe how they can influence the lives of girls who loved them in childhood. 1. "Little Red Riding Hood." Red color symbolizes an active life position and sexuality. At the same time, it is the color of blood. In an encrypted form, we are shown that the heroine of the fairy tale has reached the age of menstruation, i.e. from a child she became a girl. She plunges into the World of the Unconscious (forest) and there meets the image of a terrible Wolf who wants to eat her and her grandmother. Girls who like this fairy tale most likely received certain messages about men from their mothers. For example: “Men are animals who are fixated on satisfying physiological needs: sex, food, sleep.” “Contact with a man inevitably leads to dissolution in him, his life, loss of one’s individuality and interests.” From childhood, girls are instilled with mistrust and fear of men. Partnership contact based on intimacy and trust is impossible. To live next to a man and save yourself, you definitely need to manipulate, lie, be cunning, and just in case, have a hidden weapon in the form of a company of woodcutters with their guns, which, if necessary, will kill the terrible Wolf. In short, “A good man is a dead man.” As the tale progresses, Little Red Riding Hood turns from a possible victim into an accomplice of the aggressor. Such girls, fearing to be dissolved in someone else’s life, may look for partners who are soft in character in order to subordinate them to their interests and “dissolve” them in their own lives. Or they are seduced by aggressive, brutal, authoritarian men, and over time they are truly “absorbed” by their partner. 2. "Beauty and the Beast." In the Russian version, this is the fairy tale “The Scarlet Flower”. As in the previous fairy tale, here we see the image of a Monster, an unprecedented Beast, “not a man.” The heroine, with her unusual desires, brings trouble to her father, then sacrifices herself to save him. She also saves the monster and gradually “humanizes” it with her efforts and love. Girls who like this fairy tale have the following character traits: they usually have a very strong connection with their father, these are the so-called “daddy’s girls.” At the same time, the image of the father dominates so much in the psyche that there is simply no place for a real partner there. If the father is positive (as in a fairy tale), then the partners cannot withstand competition with him, are devalued and expelled. If the father is negative, e.g..