Abstract

SERRA, Tania Rebelo Costa. The initiation voyage of “Riobaldo Rosa” in The devil to pay in the backlands, as an individuation process. Aletheia [online]. 2006, n.24, pp. 69-80. ISSN 1413-0394.

This paper is a new reading of the 1990 work entitled Riobaldo Rosa: a vereda junguiana do Grande sertão. Its main hypothesis is that Grande sertão: veredas, the 1956 novel by João Guimarães Rosa, can be analysed through the concepts belonging to Carl Jung’s analytic psychology. This reading implies that the character Riobaldo’s “initiation journey” can actually be interpreted as an individuation process, with all its stages of development. At the end, in order to facilitate the understanding of the text, comes a glossary with the main jungien terms used in this work. Lastly, it is important to point out that this is a work of literary criticism, not psychology, which means that the individuation process here analyzed relates to a specific character and is completed at the end of the novel, a fact that does not happen in real life, when individuation is a permanently being renewed.

Keywords : João Guimarães Rosa; Brazilian literature; Myth; Archetypes.

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