A hermenêutica junguiana em estudo: aplicações possíveis na pesquisa qualitativa em psicologia

Abstract

This theoretical article characterizes the Jungian hermeneutics and proposes applicationsof that to qualitative research in Psychology.Jung´s articles as well as those from his commentators on hermeneutics formed the analysed samplewhich had its results organized using the following categories identified with the sample scrutiny: "the term 'hermeneutics' in the Psychology of Jung", "the epistemology esse in anima", "the symbolic attitude", “the four reading stages", "the teleological orientation in the understanding of meaning" and "discourse and iconography as empirical materials in Jungian hermeneutics". The application of the following hermeneuticsprocedures to qualitative research in Psychology was proposed: “the researcher´s symbolic attitude: circumscribing reality as a symbol”; “the epistemology esse in anima”; “discourse and iconographic symbols produced by individuals, groups or cultures as empirical research materials”; “the understanding of the symbol as a means of investigating a theme and a problem in research”; “the reading of a symbol through the procedures ‘let it happen’, ‘get pregnant and objectify’ and ‘confront and differentiate from’ and ‘amplification’" and “the perspective that prioritizes the identification of purpose and direction over cause and explanation in the understanding of a symbol”.