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O iluzie funcțională: femeia tânără din basmul fantastic românesc
A functional illusion: the young woman of Romanian fantastic fairy tale

Author(s): Costel Cioancă
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural history, Ethnohistory
Published by: MUZEUL ETNOGRAFIC AL TRANSILVANIEI
Keywords: imaginary;phenomenology;Romanian fairytale;young woman

Summary/Abstract: The true conductor element of the Romanian fairytale, the young woman, proves to be, in the light of the examples under discussion, both an anthropological reality and a source of mythfolkoric imagination, generating in the real objective an unrealistic subjective aspiration designed to create significant models for traditional thinking. Objects of irresistible attraction, sometimes even from the foetal stage, so that young women often have connotated cosmic attributes, from different worlds / dimensions various from those of a hero and who also reveals the functional dimension which the anonymus fairy tale author or the performer gives it to imagination. The present study is an integral part of a series of studies dedicated to the Romanian fairytale antropology. A series of studies who tries,to outline the veracious universe of archaic thinking that produces and consumes products of the traditional imaginary. And, at psychological level, what occasion could be more appropiate than the young woman, depositary of qualities and physical characteristics above average, loved and / or assidous “hunted" by the Romanian fairytale hero?

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 19-36
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Romanian