Narciso imagem: Uma contribuição para a compreensão do processo de individuação a partir da dinâmica arquetípica

Abstract

The present work intends to present a reading of the myth of Narcissus, directed to the unconscious and based on the concept of archetype presented by C.G Jung, that defines this structure as basic of the collective unconscious psyche and having as base of its action the image. Based on the hermeneutics of Jungian psychology, a constructive and prospective method, a network of associations was woven around similarities of meaning and correspondence with the psychic functioning proposed by Jung. The conception of the archetype and its direct relationship with the image denounced the themes of human experience, which in reality reappear everywhere, not only in Narcissus' trajectory. Since it is through the symbolic experience that the psyche shares, creates and transforms the world, this work points to the individuation process conceptualized by Jung as the ultimate goal of the psyche towards the search for existential meaning, experienced as sharing among the members of the psychic society and social, aiming at psychic homeostasis.