María de la O: copla y película del 36.

The couplet Maria de la O was composed by Manuel Quiroga and the lyrics written by Salvador Valverde and Rafael de León. However, in the cinematographic work of fiction, that carries the name of this couplet directed by Francisco Elias in 1936, it is believed that it came from the tormented genius Juan Manuel, Maria de la O's boyfriend. The couplet spreads all over and goes around Spain, telling about the pain a woman suffers, the story of her affliction. Through the analysis of the film we will follow the trajectory of the child Rocio, since the loss of her parents to her youth as Maria de la O. She will fall in love with a gipsy, but her desire is influenced by her past, by her stepmother and by the appearance of a middle-aged English man, who wants to paint her and offers her all she wants. The Oedipus complex in girls, according to Sigmund Freud, goes through two loses; the loss of the object of her imaginary ego, and also the loss to whom she later directs her desire, the father, once she knows about her lack for being a woman. This forgotten jewel of the Spanish cinema offers us a path in the resolution of the Oedipus complex: following Maria de la O's desire that, as her couplet, will be recognised by the spectator. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]