POJAVA EDIPOVOG I ELEKTRINOG KOMPLEKSA U BAJKAMA
PHENOMENON OF EDIP'S AND ELEKTRA'S COMPLEX IN FAIRY TALES

Summary/Abstract: Psychoanalytic theory of human maturation and development of human personality, laid out by Sigmund Freud, introduces Edip’s complex as a psychological approach to understanding the origin of sexual orientation. Sigmund Freud considered the solution of Edip’s complex as a key point in the development of personality, while the unresolved Edipal situation was in fact the cause of any later human neurosis. Both complexes (Edip’s and Elektra’s) play a vital role in psychoanalysis of human behavior in the phallic phase of child development, and appear in myths, fairy tales and contemporary films. It is well-known that Karl Gustav Jung in his analytical psychology has devoted a lot of place to fairy tales, and today they use fairy tales as part of psychotherapeutic processes. The fairy tales have always been interesting because of its magical world, full of miraculous events with even more wonderful creatures, where almost everything is possible. For a large number of psychoanalysts, fairy tales represent even today an attractive literary work, in which many motives, symbols and archetypes can be found, through we can do interpretation the relationship between symbolic connection of fairy and child. This work will focus on two fairytales: “Cinderella” and “ Jack and the Beanstalk “, which will serve as a good example to show the presence of Edip’s and Elektra’s complex in the phallic phase of the child, and to try to find but how the complex solution comes. This will also indicate the importance of fairy tales in their bibliotherapy function to help children overcome these complexes, which certainly occurs at the level of unconscious by means of symbols, motives and archetypes, appearing in fairy tales.

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