Kairós Baphoi: psicologia analítica, alquimia e imaginação ativa

Abstract

The Psychiatrist Carl G. Jung, founder of A nalytical Psychology, was one of the greatest modern scholars on psychology and alchemy, using this ancient wisdom as a symbolic basis for the construction of his psychology. His concepts were based on this symbolic knowledge, especially in identifying sim ilarities between the archetypes and alchemical symbols present in dreams, fantasies and images from the active imagination. An example of this was his “Red Book” wich he wrote in an experiential way during his life. The objective of this work was to analy ze the images that emerged from the experimenter’s active imagination, produced as digital illustrations, in order to illustrate psychologically the symbolic correlation between Analytical Psychology and Alchemy. For the analysis of archetypal imagens, a t heoretical bibliographic review of Analytical Psychology and other interpreters was carried out to understand this psychological symbolic relationship. Finally, we were able to arrive at important experiential and psychological reflections around the arche types expressed in the images, showing how the present symbols dialogued with diverse cultures and mythologies, and consequently, the report of an immersion experience around knowledge which, according to Jung, aim at the projection of psychic contents tha t are present both alchemy and active imagination