Saciando a inópia da alma: uma análise junguiana de contos de fadas

Abstract

Fairytales, since its original oral tradition thousands of years ago up to today in modern versions and editions both in cinema and literature, fascinate and intrigue audiences and readers, both young and adults. The strong symbolism present in these narratives explains this atemporal interest in fairytales. The trajectory of the woman in these tales is largely explored since the characters are mainly women. The path these characters travel on passes by innumerous psychic processes of loss, damage, quests and totality, processes inherent to all women that have long lost the harmony with their instinctive aspect of the feminine psyche. This paper aims to show, through an analysis based on Carl G. Jung‘s analytical psychology and on the wild woman archetype defined by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, that on the fairytales Mother Holle (1812) by the Grimm brothers and The unfortunate princess (1872) by Giuseppe Pitrè, from a sudden misfortune the woman faces defeat in a suffering path or the opportunity to find her psychic totality in an individuation process.