Düss 10 Fable Fable Test

Düss's fable test is a CREATED TEST FOR CHILDREN, whose purpose is to Explore conflicts In that group.

It was first published in 1940, by the psychoanalyst Louise Düss and consists of ten short stories. In these stories a hero appears that is in a given situation and children must complete each story, for which it is expected to identify with the hero and manifest their complexes.

In the Düss fable test it is based on the premise that, if the individual feels affected by any of the stories, he will give a symbolic response.

In the opposite case, If you are reluctant to respond, it means that the situation of the hero determines a chain of associations that reveals the complex to which Anclad is foundeither.

Content

• The Düss fable test
• The interpretive hypotheses
• THE 10 FABLES OF THE TEST
  • Bibliography

The Düss fable test

In most Düss fables, the main characters are animals and there are no particular school or family situations, in order to facilitate the identification of the child with the hero. This also allows that the child is not recognized in reality and does not feel afraid of being judged.

While in other tests children describe the sheets, in the Düss fable test this does not happen, as children concentrate It is to continue the story that is presented to them.

In other evidence, children feel responsible, while in the Düss fable test the responsibility is shared between the child and the examiner.

This test is also considered cheaper, because it requires less time for its application and the child has a lower emotional wear.

Said fables allow to identify situational problems, as well as development conflicts, and even allow to observe if there is a psychotic or neurotic functioning.

The application is individual and is administered in the educational and clinical area. It does not have a time limit and applies in children three years and older. The type of test is projective, that is, its purpose is the projection of personality through fables.

The fables There are ten stories that are incomplete And the stories deal with issues that try to reveal the drives and their intensity. Each of the characters that appear in the stories refer to an aspect of the subject's personality.

In principle, Düss administered the fable test to 120 subjects between 3 and 15 years, considering that adolescents could feel interest. However, It is advisable to apply it to children from 3 to 6 years old.

Before its application, a free interview with the parents is also recommended, Then an interview directed with the parents, followed by an hour of diagnostic game, apply an intelligence test, if necessary, and then proceed with the Düss fable test.

Before starting with the application of the Düss fable test, the interviewer must tell the child the following:

“I'm going to tell you some stories that have a question in the end. You have to give me the answer. You can answer exactly what you think, because the answer that you will be right ”.

It is recommended that an attractive tone be used when telling stories, without exaggerations in dramatization and avoiding suggestions regarding possible answers, nor should options be provided, or insinuate them with the tone of voice.

The interpretive hypotheses

According to Düss, the hypotheses are as follows:

1. The bird's fable: responds to the child's link with parents and their degree of dependence;
2. The anniversary of marriage: represents envy before the parents meeting;
3. The lamb: indicates the weaning and the relationship with the brothers;
4. The burial: indicates the aggressiveness, desires of death, guilt and autocastigo;
5. The fear: Content of anguish and autocastigo;
6. Elephant: castration complex;
7. The manufactured object: possessive and obsessive character;
8. The walk: Oedipus complex;
9. The news: desires or fears;
10. The bad dream: Control, responses related to previous fables are expected to arise.

The translation of the Fables of Düss to Spanish was made in 1977. In short, stories intend to evoke answers with symbolic content that allow discovering one or more conflicts.

However, Düss states that only the diagnosis of a conflict corresponds, although situations can be presented in which the child of immediate and unusual responses, perseverance of a complex in different fables; rejection of responding, silence or desire to recommend the test.

With the passing of the years, other authors have suggested that for the interpretation of the Düss fable test Three types of responses should be considered: The normal ones, when the child gives a common answer; The significant ones, when the response express aggressiveness, guilt or anguish and resistance, when the child does not respond to fables, which reveals a conflict related to the symbolic content of the story.

THE 10 FABLES OF THE TEST

The fables are as follows:

• Fable of the bird: A dad and a bird of birds and his little son sleep in the nest, on a branch. But suddenly a strong wind begins, the tree moves and the nest falls on earth. The three birds wake up abruptly. The dad immediately flies to a bush and the mother to the other. What will the small bird do? He already knows how to fly a little.
• Fable of the marriage anniversary: ​​it is The Marriage Anniversary of Dad and Mom Wedding. They want a lot and have made a great party. During the party the child gets up and goes only to the bottom of the garden. Because?
• Fable of the lamb: There are a sheep mom and her little lamb on a meadow. The lamb jump the day near the mother. Every afternoon, the mother gives a hot milk that he likes very much. But he also eats grass. One day they take another very small lamb that was hungry for the mother to be hungry for the sheep to milk. But the sheep mother does not have enough for both of them and tells her son: "I do not have enough milk for both?
• Fabula of the funeral: A burial passes through a town street, and people ask: “Who is the dead?"They reply:" It is one of the family that lives in that house ". Who? (For children who do not know death ... counting a fable as follows) one of the family has taken the plane and has left far, not?
• Fable of fear: A child says in a low voice: “How fear I have! "What are you afraid of?
• Elephant fable: A child has a small elephant who loves a lot; It is very nice and has a long trunk. One day when you return from a walk, the child enters his room and finds that his elephant has changed a lot. What has changed? Why has it changed? Who has caused change?
• Fable of the manufactured object: A child has managed to manufacture a clay thing (a tower) that seems very, very beautiful, what will it do? His mother asks him to give it to him, but he does not force him to do it; It is free to give it to him or not. What will he do? Because?
• Fable of the walk with the father or mother: A boy (or a girl, if a girl) has taken a pleasant walk in the forest with her mother (dad, if she is a girl), the two alone, the boy realizes that the father (the mother) does not have his face always. Because?
• Fable of the news: A child returns from school (or walking) and his mother says: “Do not start preparing your lessons; I have to give you news. What is the mother going to say?
• Fable of bad sleep: A child wakes up in the morning very fatigued and says “What dream have I had!"What has dreamed?

These are the ten stories that make up the Düss fable test and that are widely used, especially in the field of psychoanalysis.

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