“O PATINHO FEIO”: UMA ESTRATÉGIA DE COMBATE AO ESTABELECIMENTO DE PADRÕES COMPORTAMENTAIS GERADORES DO COMPLEXO DE BELEZA

Abstract

Fairy Tales are part of children's culture, since the child begins to develop a sense of perception and the ability to understand stories, they start to listen to them, both at home and at school. Fairy Tales are loaded with meanings, they deal with diverse themes, and among them the Beauty complex, a theme that triggers by virtue of triggering the psychological and mental imbalance causing the development of pathologies. In this sense, this research aims to recognize which themes are intrinsic to the short story “O Patinho Feio” and which are related to the existing behavioral patterns in relation to body image. The completion of the study presupposed the development of a bibliographic research with a qualitative approach. The analyzes and reflections carried out had as theoretical support the contribution of scholars such as Bettelheim (2016); Courtine (2008); Eco (2007), among others. The beauty complex that propagates the conception of the existence of a biophysical standard considered “beautiful” is part of the current reality. In view of this pattern, the search for it ends up intervening in the behavior of individuals, leading to the development of pathologies.