A função materna nos contos de fadas: uma leitura do Complexo de Édipo nas obras dos Irmãos Grimm e de Charles Perrault.

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 an 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]