According to the wisdom of Marie Louise von Franz (1973), a Jungian depth-psychological study of fairy tales begins with the initial exposition of all the characters. One examines the quality, number and role of characters for what is missing in order to bring archetypal completeness. In this tale, it is the Sea-King and his six daughters including the Little Mermaid. There is also the king’s mother, who is described as being a woman of great wisdom. There is no queen and the king is widowed. They all live in a beautiful palace far out in the ocean, where it is very deep, as mermen and mermaids, and have fishes’ tails.
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