Alteridade - a boa nova de Jesus: uma leitura psicológica do Novo Testamento

Abstract

This thesis undertakes an archetypal psychological interpretation of The New Testament. My starting point is that the Gospels search for the detachment of conciousness from the matriarchal and patriarchal archetypes to integrate the archetype of alterity in individual and collective consciousness. From this perspective, the events in Jesus' life and his parables have and archetypal meaning which ultimately search to attain profound human identity through lhe archetype ofalterity. For this to be possible, however, we must dearly identifj the organizing power of lhe patriarchal archetype which distorted the Religion Christian during its institutionalization and deformed its essence of alterity. The Cristian Religian also has a therapeutic capacity because it points out the most frequent fixations (sins) which occur during the individuation process