JKR vs CSL revisited

[A.E.B.Bevan at open.ac.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 27894

Follwing on from a number of threads really...

http://film.guardian.co.uk/harrypotter/news/0,10608,549560,00.html

This previews a new chapter in Michael and Margaret Rustin's study of 
children's literature, Narratives of Love and Loss, published by 
Karnac Books. This revised edition with Harry potter analysis will be 
published in next few weeks. (So dont rush out and get the 1987 
roiginal)

text includes:
It is a story that is already worth more than $100 million of 
investment to film-makers at Warner Brothers, with much more to come. 
It has made its once impoverished author a millionaire many times 
over, while its enormous popularity in 200 countries and 47 languages 
is self-evident. 
Now a child psychotherapist is to reveal exactly how J.K. Rowling did 
it. A theory to be published next month will aim for the first time 
to explain the success of Harry Potter in psychological terms. 

Margaret Rustin, a distinguished psychotherapist at London's 
Tavistock Clinic, has isolated the factors in Rowling's work that 
ensure its appeal for adults and children. 

This story of wizards, potions and broomsticks, it turns out, in fact 
deals with archetypal fears of loss and separation and, as such, is 
copying a formula set down by other great works of children's 
literature, such as C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the 
Wardrobe. 

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