Clarice Lispector em “A via crucis do corpo”: um diálogo entre Literatura, Psicologia Junguiana e Teologia

Abstract

In this work, three areas of knowledge were placed in an interdisciplinary dialogue that, until now, had little talk in the academic environment: Literature, Jungian Psychology and Theology. The literary work under study is authored by the writer Clarice Lispector, was originally published in 1974, is composed of thirteen stories, whose main guiding theme is sex, and is entitled A via crucis do corpo. The proposed reflection is based on questions related to staging in language, the process of individuation and self-knowledge of the characters and the understanding of the sacred as in close interaction with corporeal materiality. The body is understood as a mediator of the sacred and the work seeks to show the relationship of the characters with their respective bodies, the process of self-discovery and the discovery of the world, in short, the suffered via the body's crucis traveled by them, and narrated in the stories until carry out their religare with themselves and with life, and thus be reborn and resurrected from death, as Christ himself, implicit reference in the title of the work.