As imagens de Deus e Os Livros Negros de Jung

Abstract

The Black Books were so named due to the color of the private diaries where Carl Gustav Jung wrote the intimate experiences that erupted from his unconscious between 1913 and 1932, through a self-experiment with a method that would become known as Active Imagination. These experiences were considered by him the main source of inspiration for the original ideas resulting in his later theoretical development. The objective is to provide a framework for understanding The Black Books and to explore its influence on the later theoretical developments of the author, particularly concerning his interpretation of the term Image of God and his concept of Imago Dei. A bibliographical research was carried out through an integrative literature review, covering not only The Black Books and other autobiographical works, but also his theoretical works and studies by specialized commentators. The main characters present in the work were analyzed to find evidences that pointed to the idea contained in the concept of Imago Dei, which was found in the passages with the figures of Izdubar and Fanes. Both characters appear as representations of divinity emanating from Jung's unconscious, images of the Self in a numinous aspect.