A importância psicológica dos mitos contemporâneos

Abstract

This work seeks to evidence the existence of an archetypal phenomenon of mythic function in contemporary fantasy-fictional culture. This phenomenon brings relevant contributions to psychology and its study reflects on the theory and professional practice of psychologists. To support this claim, I use Joseph Campbell's mythological theory to address what myth is and how it fits into our civilizational context. We live a moment of creative effervescence. People everywhere are producing meaningful elements for their personal issues, many among them no longer following a traditional path, but pursuing the need to find their own answers to life. In this sense, analytic psychology takes this production, this psychic activity, as an object to reflect on the processes and subliminal developments that occur both for the subject and for the collectivity. Similarly to Jung's work and based on it, this is an effort to observe the unconscious tendencies of our time in order to bring a broader understanding about the phenomena that govern us, and in which we are living. Such considerations impact both the theoretical work of continuity of analytical psychology as it is a generic parallel to the possibility of current psychic functioning – a possibility of self-knowledge for the analyst, who needs to be aware of the issues of his time, and a clarification in the case of an analyst that can be captured by these images rich in symbologies with their updated language.