O imaginário infantil, Kafka e a boneca viajante: um estudo psicanalítico

Abstract

This work had as its theme The children's imagination, Kafka and the traveling doll: a psychoanalytic study, in which it turned its focus to what characterizes the work Kafka and the Traveling Doll, in a perspective that there is the assumption that when Franz Kafka was walking in Stegliz Square, on medical advice due to his tuberculosis, he saw a little girl crying for having lost her doll, when this happened right away during her retirement, the reason for her great anguish, since a year later Franz died. The research aimed to identify the relationship between the author Franz Kafka and the work Kafka and the traveling doll, through a psychoanalytic study. Having as a method of approach a research of bibliographic review, descriptive and analytical, supported by several publications between authors and documents about the subject with qualitative nature. And as a problem the focus was: what is the psychoanalytic criticism applied in Kafka's work about the traveling doll? As it turns out that as Kafka finds the girl crying because of the loss of her doll, he was extremely moved, as he said he was a postman for dolls, so for three weeks he delivered letters to her in which they told about the supposed trips of the doll, soon the little girl, upon receiving the letters, became excited and then accepted the departure of her doll. As it was identified that the psychoanalytic criticism was applied in the work Kafka and the traveling doll, the doll is actually Franz Kafka, this fact is proven through the messages of the letters.