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In this course we will read and analyze “tales of childhood” in fairy tales, films, novels and autobiographies to illustrate the parallel established by psychoanalysis between dream, myth and the "family romance of neurotics", i.e. the legends we live by concerning (our) childhood. This will allow us to introduce Freud’s and his followers’ concept of the “marvelous child”, its relationship to the myth of the hero in social life and in individual and collective processes of identification and the pathological role, the myth of the God-child plays in patients’ delirious fantasies of descent.
