A Life in the Round 5: Narrative and a bodily understanding of 'meaning'

In which Greg and I talk about stories and their meaning... We start with a quote from one of the most penetrating studies of the us fairy stories and the acquisition of meaning in childhood, Bruno Bettleheim's Uses of Enchantment (available here)...

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true conciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult acheivement is to find meaning in our lives...An understanding of the meaning of one's life is not suddenly aquired at a particular age, not even when one has reached chronological maturity. On the contrary, gaining a secure understanding of what the meaning of what one's life may or ought to be is what constitutes having attained psychological maturity.