Mundos Inventados: fantasia como recurso simbólico acerca da família

Abstract

The present work investigates the family's symbolic function's value in the social, physical and psychological development, which occurs in the second stage of children's development. It is proposed to examine the historic context in which the family origins, the changes it has been through and how it has been seen in current day's social context. The movie "where the wild things are", directed by Spike Jonze in 2010, inspired by Maurice Sendak's tale for children from 1963 and the book Coraline, written by Neil Gaiman in 2003, is used focusing on the critical transitioning process from childhood to adolescence. It is employed the literature review methodology leading to think the family function in the creation of the worlds suggested by both characters, Max and Coraline, who update to their fantasy their individual experience and search for a differentiation in the construction of their identities. The criticism of parents or disillusionment of reality subsidizes the right to confront it. They experience the fall of ideals and the castration complex in an active production of their own monsters. The crisis caused by the loss of symbolic referential produces new ways of experiencing reality. The new place created is a metaphorical expression for this fear of change and its attempts to produce narcissistic regressive parental reconfigurations, literary and individually. The characters say for us about the quest for a unique and social confrontation of our contemporary uncertainties.