Editorial

We live in a phase of uncertainty. We have recently started to leave our homes and resume our face-to-face activities. Will this movement continue?

In its trajectory, Revista Junguiana has participated in the events of the world and of the Brazilian culture, reflecting and maintaining dialogue with the wounds and experiences of grief and intense losses amid the pandemic. At this moment, in which we yearn for transformation and rebirth, Revista Junguiana celebrates its fortieth edition, carrying a history of accomplishments, disseminating fundamental experiences and concepts of Analytical Psychology. Along this journey, it grew, transformed, incorporated diversity and creativity, became bilingual and became electronic, and started to have two annual print runs.

Congratulations to you, dear daughter! Congratulations to all of us, fathers and mothers of this vehicle, an expression of much love and work from our SBPA!

This issue is graceful, full of new themes and deep reflections. We start with the article "The life of ghosts: melancholy and memory", which seeks to amplify the conceptions of the ghost either as a political-narrative figuration, or as dynamism, in an experimental and intuitive way. We then find and admire ourselves with the essay "Alchemy of words: extracting time from words", which has poetry as a compass for the path, and alchemy as a metaphorical map. Then, we come across the singular proposition of "Cartography of the psyche: Jung and his mysterious anagram" that seeks to find an explanation for the enigma of the "Seven Sermons to the Dead". Afterwards, we find the next manuscript, intitled "Cultural Complex in the metropolis in the times of COVID-19". While reading this article, we can reflect in on the reasons for the São Paulo metropolis to succumb to the adversities of the pandemic. Alongside the realization of these sufferings, we can discover the re-enchantment of the world in the manuscript entitled "Dialogue between traditional indigenous knowledge and analytical psychology". Later, to feed us with hope, we enjoy the text "Scrapes and scraps are interesting to us: about love in times of survival". And so, the exquisite remembrance of gratitude consciousness on the path that leads to individuation is evidenced in the manuscript intitled "Gratitude and Individuation: review and reflections". Finally, and having already fed ourselves, we will be able to obtain the recognition of the award for the work carried out in the text "The granting of the bestowal: The father archetype and the symbolic foundations of depression".

In its mission to spread the knowledge of analytical psychology, our journal maintains the purpose of defending diversity and otherness, in opposition to a patriarchal dynamism in which the other is the enemy simply for being different. Without the other we do not remain, we do not transform, we are not. May the rebirth come, this eternal reinvention that the human being has as a possibility.

We hope that everyone, like us, can enjoy the pleasure of reading the texts that make up this issue of the fortieth edition of Revista Junguiana.

Good reading!

May 2022

The editors