Alice and the choice of a possible way between fantasy and reality: the use of stories in clinical child

Abstract

Freud (1996) always showed a big interest in myths and tales. Considering it as instruments for human comprehension, it allowed that a new way of access to psychism was possible, uniting art and literacy. He discovered that tales allowed the development of significant representation to the subject, in a way that his considerations could interfere directly in the form that we think of children’s psychoanalysis and some aspects of child development in the contemporaneity, like fantasy and self defense mechanisms. By the use of the tales technique, this work propose a discussion about this theme applied to children's clinic, analyzing the benefits of the tales during the therapeutic journey of the children. The methodological principles of this work anchor on the psychoanalytic research, through the construction of a case, which was characterized by the clinical treatments made with a 5 years old childattended in an educational institution in the city of Porto Alegre. It was noted, through the technique of the tales, the capability that the child have to elaborate his own conflicts in a symbolic way through the tales, that allowed her, also, the development of new narratives about the tale.