LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ENTERS OTRANTO’S CASTLE

A PSYCHOANALYTIC LOOK ABOUT THE GOTHIC IN THROUGH THE WOODS, BY EMILY CARROLL

Abstract

This paper was born from the idea of thinking about the way the gothic aesthetics assimilated and reworked the compositional structures of the fairy tales. Taking into consideration the field of possibilities, it was used as our corpus the graphic book Through the woods, by the Canadian author Emily Carroll, as representation of this process. The selection was made keeping in mind the way the author rearranges different compositional and symbolic structures of different fairy tales, through Gothic lenses. Thus, this study was organized in three sections: in the first one, it was sought to understand what are the fairy tales, and how a Gothic literature is capable of assimilate and rearrange them in a new narrative axis; in the second section, it was observed how the author used the resource of recit encatré to sew her Gothic fairy tales; in the third section, it was analyzed the tale Our neighbor's house, present in Carroll’s book, from a psychoanalytic perspective. Bettelheim (2018), Dokou (2017), and Jolles (2017) were used for the foundation of this study.