A senda da individuação em Carl G. Jung e suas correlações com o budismo Mahāyāna

Abstract

This dissertation seeks to elucidate the investigation of the relationship between analytical psychology, founder Carl Gustav Jung, and Buddhism, in its slope known as Mahāyāna Buddhism. For this, three key aspects will be analyzed in detail. The first aspect concerns Jung's motivation for dialogue with Eastern religions in general, based on a careful diagnosis of the spiritual crisis of the West and its Christian tradition. The second aspect refers to the direct dialogue established with Buddhist thought in its various aspects, especially Mahāyāna Buddhism, in the context of orientalism prevalent in Europe of its time. And the third and final aspect refers to the similarities and differences between the processes of transformation proposed on the one hand by analytic psychology through the notion of individuation and, on the other hand, Mahāyāna Buddhism through the so-called Bodhisattva-bodhisattvamārga path . Thus, on the basis of the studies on analytical psychology and Māhāyana Buddhism, one identifies that, on the one hand, the latter served some form of support for the former, and on the other, both systems present similar proposals in the Which relates to the goals of a spiritual transformation. With this proposed study we will point out that they are somehow convergent and that they are enriched by mutual dialogue.