Marie-Louise von Franz has earned worldwide recognition for her psychological interpretation of fairy tales, myths and dreams. In this book, she discusses the symbolism of the images of the Romanian fairy tale about the enchanted cat princess - as always, very witty and well-reasoned. Gradually unraveling the numerous symbolic threads and motifs of the fairy tale, M.-L. von Franz strives to teach readers to recognize and work with archetypal experiences based on Jungian psychology. She reveals very important themes of liberation of the feminine principle and the union of opposites, each time correlating them with both individual and collective psychology. The material for this book was the lectures given by M.-L. von Franz at the C.-G. Jung Institute in Zurich, in which her exceptional theoretical precision was combined with subtle and unexpected insights and always based on life experience.