The maternal function in fairy tales

a reading of the Oedipus Complex in the works of the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2023.1.44311

Keywords:

Fairy tales., Maternal figures, Oedipus complex.

Abstract

This article has the intention to pay attention to some latent aspects in fairy tales, in the versions produced by the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault, and seen from the psychoanalytic perspective, in the reading of Bruno Bettelheim (1980). We will make na analysis of some of the tales by the above authors, under the viewpoint of Bettelheim, who, following the Freudian and Lacanian theories, invests in the Oedipus Complex, to relate the three phases of this complex, manifested in the characters of Snow White, Cinderella, Prince Frog, The Girl of the Geese, John and Mary, The Fairies, Rapunzel, Little Thumb, and Little Red Riding Hood. This is a bibliographical analysis, whose objective is to allow a reflection on the possible identification of children with the characters in these tales, in order to facilitate their immersion in the world, based on the information inscribed, according to Lacan, in the Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real, structures that, besides not disregarding Freudian concepts, are able to expand them.

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Author Biographies

Fabiana Sena, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, João Pessoa, PB, Brasil.

Post-doctorate in Education from the University of State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Doctorate in Literature from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). Teacher Associate III in the Department of Methodology at Education and accredited in the Postgraduate Program in Education, both located at UFPB. Leader of the Memory, History and Education Research Group CNPq/UFPB. Researcher at FAPESQ/PB.

 

Girlene Marques Formiga, Instituto Federal da Paraíba, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Profissional e Tecnológica, João Pessoa, PB, Brasil.

PhD in Literature from the Federal University of Paraíba. Full professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Paraíba (IFPB), with performance in the Postgraduate Program in Education Professional and Technological and Degree in Literature with a qualification in Portuguese. Group Leader of Research CNPq/IFPB Reading, Literature, Teaching and training processes (LLEF).

Joselí Maria da Silva, Instituto Federal da Paraíba, Departamento de Letras, João Pessoa, PB, Brasil.

Graduated in Literature/Portuguese/English/French, Master in Portuguese Language and PhD in Linguistics from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). Member of the CNPq/UFPB Memory, History and Education Research Group. Retired full professor at the Federal Institute of Paraíba (IFPB), João Pessoa Campus.

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Published

2023-11-16

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Sena, F., Marques Formiga, G., & da Silva, J. M. (2023). The maternal function in fairy tales: a reading of the Oedipus Complex in the works of the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault. Letrônica, 16(1), e44311. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2023.1.44311

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2023): Single Volume

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LITERATURA INFANTIL E JUVENIL CONTEMPORÂNEA

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