Sesame is a plant of Asian origin, today widely spread over the Middle East, where it is used to prepare fabulous sweets such as helwa, or doughnuts covered with the characteristic little white seeds.
Psychologist C. G. Jung once said that all change is experienced by the ego as a death. It's a long, slow process to develop into the person we are.
The origin of the tales told by Shehrazade is lost in the mist of times. Borges says that the Nights evoke the cathedrals, the labours of generations.
A psychoanalytical interpretation of the Thousand and One Nights must necessarily begin with the prologue, the overall frame that introduces Shehrazade as teller of healing tales.
The tales of the Thousand and One Nights aim at correcting, almost in therapeutic manner, the Sultan's misconceptions and his mistaken attitude towards the female principle
