Abstract
The subject of the article is the study of a fairy tale in a wide range of problems relevant to modern science. It is considered the tale as the object of psycholinguistics’ research. The data not only of psycholinguistics proper, but also of psychology, psychoanalysis and other sciences are attracted, which is necessary from the point of view of the issue under discussion that in the fairy tale as one of the constituent parts of the foremother culture the unconscious drives of the person are personified.