Abstract

ARREGUY, Marília Etienne. Pseudo-pedagogical recipes to infantilize the culture. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2017, n.47, pp. 25-33. ISSN 0100-3437.

The present text is based on the meeting with the author Dominique Ottavi (2011) and the translation of his text Mythe et altérité enfantine , as well as the orientation of trainees in pedagogy, who defend the importance of the use of fairy tales in the learning process. Ottavi puts into question the seemingly undoubted assertion about the pedagogical use of fairy tales, which is recurrently taken by families and teachers as a way of promoting the "development" of the child. Following the theoretical deductions of the author, in criticizing a kind of postulate take for granted in Children's education, that is, the use of fairy tales as a privileged psychopedagogical means, it is evident its function of instilling fear, sexual repression and dated moral precepts; something that needs further reflection. It is pertinent to raise a certain mistrust regarding the enchanted and terrifying world of short stories, since they can serve as a form of alienation and cover-up of the anguish of the adults themselves. The fallacy of betting on an alleged "primitiveness" of infantile thought seems to preach, in a subterranean and unconscious way, a infantilism in one's own culture.

Keywords : Fairy tales; Fear; Primitivism; Pedagogy; Psychoanalysis.

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