The Evil before Good. (IV) The Reason for Leaving the Child in the Romanian Fairy Tale Cover Image

RĂUL DE DINAINTEA BINELUI. (IV) MOTIVUL PĂRĂSIRII COPILULUI ÎN BASMUL FANTASTIC ROMÂNESC
The Evil before Good. (IV) The Reason for Leaving the Child in the Romanian Fairy Tale

Author(s): Costel CIOANCĂ
Subject(s): Romanian Literature, Philology
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Evil; Good; reason for leaving; child; phenomenology; Romanian fairy tale;

Summary/Abstract: A mythological motive, full of imaginative and strongly ontological elements, the abandonment / exile of the child in the Romanian fairytale brings into the epic plane the labor and consciousness of a (dis) imaginary continuity, in which the social contents load the subject itself. The symbolic expression of such a motive of evil and moment of weakness, when a parent exiles / leaves his child in a space of chaos, demonic, like the forest from the fantastic Romanian fairy tale, is obvious. The relations between the carnal body and the spiritual body discovered here, in this space of exile, will make from the exiled child a prominent exponent of the imaginary of the traditional evil. The dynamics of the primary pulses generated by the production of evil, when the exile manifests in the new space all sorts of feelings (despair, fear, etc.), will be quickly subordinated to the secondary (spiritual) pulses: either with divine help, or with his own fund of self, the exiled realizes that this (self) exile is, in fact, a necessary / obligatory moment for deciding, remodeling, revalorizing its common social and spiritual status in advance.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 47-61
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Romanian