O secreto parentesco entre o diabo e a mulher: o problema do feminino e do mal na psicologia complexa de Carl Gustav Jung e a nova religião

Abstract

This thesis investigates the phenomenology of the feminine and evil in Carl Gustav Jung’s complex psychology, articulating the author's biography with his work. The research adopts a chronological approach that begins with the study of Transformations and Symbols of the Libido (1912), a work that marks Jung's uniqueness in relation to psychoanalysis and the start of his investigation into the creative and teleological nature of psychic energy. It is proposed that this milestone establishes the foundations for the confrontation with the Unconscious that would follow, in which the images of the shadow and the anima emerge as central elements of psychic tension. The core of the work lies in the analysis of The Black Books (1913–1932), manuscripts that record Jung's introspective journey and function as the alchemical crucible where complex psychology was conceived. Through the study of these notebooks, the thesis demonstrates how the deliberate confrontation with the feminine and the powers of evil destabilizes the unilateral image of perfection present in Christianity and rationalism, leading to the sacrifice of perfection in favor of psychic totality. Subsequently, the research analyzes how the experiences with the powers of the feminine and evil recorded in The Black Books, whose signs first appear in Transformations and Symbols of the Libido, culminated in complex psychology. Special attention is dedicated to Jung’s late texts on religion, in which the author analyzes the crisis of the image of God in modernity. It is demonstrated that the Jungian path does not point toward a new dogmatic confession of faith, but rather toward what the soul names in the manuscripts as a new religion: the foundation of an inner church grounded in the integrity of the individual who bears the tension between psychic opposites. Finally, the thesis concludes that the ultimate purpose of the individuation process and the integration of the feminine and evil is not a heroic isolation, but the radical experience of alterity. The profound meaning of Jungian psychology reveals itself, therefore, in the quality of human relationships, where the sacred ceases to be an abstract ideal to manifest itself in the field of real life.