Many of A. S. Byatt’s stories have taken place in the framework of fairy tales, and critics believe that they are effective symbolic devices for telling stories. Checked in a Jungian light, the two mythic events in Little Black Book of Stories—“the thing” in the forest as well as a woman’s petrified body—are the characters’ projections of the mother imago. The Jungian concept of “individuation” is reviewed in the article to check the romantic male-female relationships in the five stories; their union proves double-blessing by which the male gains the feminine relatedness in their personality and the female gains the ability of deliberation. However, the endings of the stories are highly ambivalent and in a sense deconstruct the Jungian idealism about “individuation”. “A Stone Woman” subverts the Jungian “individuation” and shows clear traces of feminism.