A DEVASTAÇÃO DA EXPERIENCIA HUMANA: ecos maternos em Peter Pan, de J. M. Barrie.

Abstract

This work aims to analyze, from the perspective of psychoanalytic theory, the character of J.M.Barrie, Peter Pan, and his conflicts related to the bankruptcy of the primitive relation with his object of lost love, his mother. For Psychoanalysis the Other is significant in the construction of the subject. At birth, the baby is helpless and needy. This Other, who may be the biological mother or other subject holding such a function, is responsible for deciphering the world and making it more bearable for that baby. Using authors such as Freud (1915/1916), Killey (1983), and Bernardino (2006), we identify, from the concept of an Other in the primitive relation of the subject, elaborated by psychoanalysis, that the character Peter Pan lives in search of this subject to which it is still glued. The present work is structured in three chapters, namely: Children's Literature; Our relationship with the world mediated by an Other (mother) and Analysis of the Work.