Abstract

FREITAS, Laura Villares de. Experiential groups according to a Jungian approach. Psicol. USP [online]. 2005, vol.16, n.3, pp. 45-69. ISSN 1678-5177.

This article considers the possibility and the value of experiential groups according to the perspective of Jungian analytical psychology in our present socio-cultural context. It outlines a practical purpose of groups involving the creation of masks and personages, and presents different authors’ contributions which take in a creative way the ritual under a psychological viewpoint and question the viability of group works. It also offers a mythological approach which comments the Gorgona, Dioniso, Artemis, Echo and Narcissus, and emphasizes the Greek goddess Hestia, her characteristics being related to aspects that are necessarily present in the experiential groups and to the possibility itself of something psychological to happen. The experiential groups are seen as promoters of alterity in the relationships, as each participant has the opportunity to assert himself and to be confirmed, of expression and reflexion, in a fruitful interactional field.

Keywords : Junguian psychology; Encounter group therapy; Self psychology; Mythology.

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