O si-mesmo, Deus e a anima mundi: a importância da psicologia da mandala na obra de Carl Gustav Jung

Abstract

The psychology of the mandala has its importance in the work of Carl Gustav Jung. From it, one can understand the limits of the concepts of Self, God and anima mundi in Jungian theory. To develop this theme, there were clearly influence of gnosticism, alchemy, mystical authors, chinese taoism, kundalini yoga. Jung drank from the fountain of diverse disciplines, and produced with uniqueness and originality the concept of the mandala. The importance is not to admire mandalic images or copy them. In the process of integration between the conscious and the unconscious, these images come naturally, showing integration of the personality, maturity and the pursuit of the wholeness of being. Being, from the psychology of the mandala, is in God. A God who is beyond the personal God. It is the very deity. And from it, the self breaks the egoic barriers and extends itself to the other and to the world, understood here as the anima mundi. To become the self is to find simplicity. It is to understand life by the heart.