Abstract

SANT'ANNA, Paulo Afrânio. A contribution to the discussion about psychic images in the analytical psychology context. Psicol. USP [online]. 2005, vol.16, n.3, pp. 15-44. ISSN 1678-5177.

The discussion about the nature of psychic images has been present since the beginning of psychology. In the last decades this subject has been highlighted in all approaches, reflecting in clinical modalities that are predominantly based on the imagistic speech. To the Analytical Psychology, the issue of image has been the focus of many discussions and among them three theoretical-practical tendencies are emphasized - classic, developmental and archetypical - that determine different perspectives on that issue. It is observed a tendency of treating the image in its own phenomenology instead of its interpretation and in spite of the importance of the images to the clinical context, this subject is nearly absent in psychology graduation programs and in the theorization process. In this sense, some proposals are discussed as possibilities of learning and theorization in the field of image. As the dialectic relation between theory and practice is needed in order to the upgrading of the theory and its vital connection to the contemporary social-cultural reality, through data obtained from interviews with Brazilian psychotherapists, contributions for the discussion about images on the clinical context were identified.

Keywords : Imagery; Psychotherapy; Junguian psychology; Psychologist education.

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