Os cadáveres dos pântanos um estudo sobre a presença dos mortos na obra de Carl Gustav Jung

Abstract

This study aims to get to know Carl Gustav Jung's experience with the dead and its relationship with the construction of analytical psychology, in spite of the strength of its representativeness in the psyche through the recognition of the human constitutional duality expressed by the transience of the body and by the immortality of the soul. The thesis is organized into five chapters in such a way as to contemplate the fertile articulation of psychological knowledge with spiritualist studies, an enriching attitude towards the deepening of studies of the psyche. The first chapter presents the contact of the dead with Jung against the background of the most archaic in man and the subterranean realm of Hades. The second chapter studies the collective substratum of Jung's personal experience with the dead, linking it with the mediumistic experiences of three notable women of his time. The third chapter brings alchemy as an arcane tradition depositary of one of the most expressive imagery riches in articulation with the human suffering symbolized by the claiming themes of the dead of Jerusalem. And the last chapter discusses the dead as heralds from an ancient world that remind contemporary man of his psychic immortality. It concludes that analytical psychology is a powerful link that, without abandoning the rigor of its foundations, updates the ancient mystical proposal of man who lives in matter, from matter, but for God.