Images of feminine in the poetical work of Cecília Meireles

• Grant number: 11/04649-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: July 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Durval Luiz de Faria
• Grantee: Giselli Renata Gonçalves
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e da Saúde. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In the task to investigate the functioning of psyche, it fits to psychology to stabilish a dialogue with different fields where the soul finds expression possibilities. In such case, the poetical art, whose psychological meaning was already salient for Jung, seems to constitute a privileged field for manifestation of symbolic contents. Our proposal of research consists of examining images related to Feminine in Cecilia Meirele's poetical work, aiming the understanding of which forms this archetypal principle gains visibility in its writing. We will adopt a method of qualitative analysis, based on ontologic and epistemologic concepts of the Jungian paradigm. The images selected in the texts will be submitted to the process of symbolic amplification, which consists of widening the context of images, relating it to mythology, folklore and art, aiming to place it in the panorama of universal subjects of the human experience. Thus, we hope "to translate" such images in concepts, and possibly to know its meanings in depth. (AU)