Le labyrinthe de Pan : mécanismes de défense dans le conte de fées cinématographique
Pan's Labyrinth: Defense Mechanisms in the Cinematic Fairy Tale

Summary/Abstract: This article attempts to debate the possibility of choice based on the relationship that is established between the concepts of avoidance and defence (or adaptation) from a psychoanalytic and an experiential perspective in a context where the filmic fairy tale proposed for analysis has this capacity to deliver a double dimensionality in relation to the realities to which Ofelia has access. The experienceof the nightmare in this noir fairy tale seems like a choice that is bound up with thelack of morality of the objective real and an ethic of salvation that defines thefantastic. My interpretative approach will be based on the principle of suspension of disbelief supported by the general atmosphere of a clinical picture of thecharacters with which Ofelia comes into contact throughout the film and accordingto whose actions she will understand the relationship between the two probabilities that contribute substantially to defining the limits of the nightmare experience.

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