Fairytale and myth is utopian wishing disguised through Freudian mechanisms of concealment.

Evidence

The privileged objects of such hermeneutic analysis are of course myth and art; and they are distinguished from each other not as popular versus sophisticated culture, but rather as content versus form. For in the myth and the fairy tale the act of wishing, which is the most authentic dramatization of the Utopian impulse, constitutes the very story line of the fable itself. And the elaboration of fairy tale or myth is essentially a process of transformation or disguise, of distortion or displacement of that basic content, operations which no doubt correspond to the various modes of concealment from censorship which Freud exhaustively described in the Interpretation of Dreams. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 281

Categorization

• XREF: Directly bridges Bloch’s utopian reading of myth to Freud’s dream-censorship model — a mediation-of-material point connecting to the Frankfurt lineage and to Jameson’s own work on ideology as disguised wish. — connects to: Mass commercial culture is always secretly utopian because manipulation needs a fantasy bribe — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 303
• DEFINE: Defines the myth/art distinction as content versus form rather than popular versus high culture.

Broader Connections

• Mass commercial culture is always secretly utopian because manipulation needs a fantasy bribe #corroborates (0.88) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 303