Tove Jansson (1914-2001), was a Swedish speaking Finn, a noted painter and writer, best known as the creator and author of the Moomin books which she illustrated herself. The first book in the series ...was published in 1945 in Finland. Since then, they have delighted many children and adult readers and gained the status of classics. Although the Moomins are especially well-known in the Nordic countries, they are also popular abroad and have been translated into many different languages. Moominvalley is both a familiar and magical place where the everyday and the incredible intertwine seamlessly to transport readers beyond the everyday to the realm of fairy tales and inner worlds. Deep structures of meaning can be found underlying the stories representing a delicate interplay between separateness and union, the tension between being seen and hidden, and integration of the self. This paper aims to examine how the stories evoke these inner processes and are depicted in the behaviours, moods and feelings of Moomin characters in the light of psychoanalytic theory, with particular reference to the work of Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott.
Imagination is the ability of envisaging something that does not exist at the time being. Since 5-6-year-old children get through the pre-operational stage of Piaget's 2004. Çocukta Zihinsel Gelişim ...Intellectual Development of Child (2nd ed., H. Portakal, Trans.). İstanbul: Cem, they believe in empirical facts. Hence, Kujawski's Test of Creative Imagination (TCI) is not suitable to the children aged 6 years and younger. In this study, Kujawski's TCI was tried to be made suitable for the age group of 5-6 years. For this purpose, 204 children aged between 5 and 6 years attending the kindergartens, selected by using simple random sampling method in the city centre of Denizli Province, Turkey, were included in the study. At the end of the study, TCI was found to be a reliable and valid assessment instrument for children in the age group of 5-6 years. The 6-year-old children made more ideas and more detailed constructions than the 5-year-old children.
