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ROCH, Alex Borges. Curing the cheese, curing the psyche: a metaphor. Junguiana [online]. 2024, vol.42, e05.  Epub 27-Jan-2025. ISSN 2595-1297.  https://doi.org/10.70435/junguiana.v42.101.

Observing the artisanal cheese manufacturing process, we can see a possible correspondence between the phases of this culinary operation and the process of analyzing the psyche. Both begin with a destabilization that can be conducive to building something closer to its essence or turn sour and become unbearable. Both in cooking and in depth psychology, this process can be given the same name: healing. Sometimes, it is also called maturation. Thus, we can imagine that more than ending the symptom the cure could mean a maturation of the psyche. For this work, we will draw comparisons between three pieces of knowledge: the cheese production process (through testimonies from master cheesemakers from the Minas Gerais region recorded in the film O mineiro e o queijo, directed by Helvécio Ratton, in 2011), the psychotherapy process in analytical approach and, on the third seat at the table for this conversation, the tradition of alchemy.

Palavras-chave : cheese; cure; maturation; alchemy; psychotherapy.

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