THE SYMBOLIC IN THE CLOTILDE TAVARES BOTTLE: FROM DREAM TO HIDDEN TREASURE

Abstract

The symbolic imaginary, around the stories about hidden treasures and dreams, within the scope of popular culture, reveals that the treasure winner must follow the clues, according to dream like revelation, to find it. From the 20th century, with Freudian studies on dreams, interest in the subject grew in academia. The Jungian perspective argues that dreams bring revelations to the dreamer about his evolutionary process, so that the dream world must be read from the context of the dreamer's life. In this sense, the article, a priori, reflects on the symbolism around the bottle and the dream as elements of popular culture; and, from Clotilde Tavares's The bottle, it makes a cut out of the narrative of the character Pedro Firmo and offers a hermeneutic of the dream of this character. From this clipping, the writer's ability to weave, in her narrative, the stories of Eulália and her sorcerer father and the romance of the mysterious peacock is exposed. The interest in the cut out occurs due to the symbolism that involves fantastic/mythological elements of popular culture, such as the bottle and the dream, in addition to the myth of origin, symbols and archetypes, as synchronous elements that structure the dream of the character. The article is based on Analytical Psychology for a hermeneutics of the text of popular culture and highlights a symbolic system that structures the dream of said character, evidencing a coherent relationship between the fantastic/dreamworld and the sensitive world, exposing Clotilde Tavares' literary text as a field to the human experiment, whose potential allows to broaden the reader's view of the sensitive/intelligible worlds and their relationships.