Contemporary relations between aging, religion and culture, under the Jungian light within African Mythology
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2016v19i4p383-399Keywords:
Aging, Analytical Psychology, Jung, African Mithology.Abstract
This work aims to provide an analysis of old age, for gerontologists, psychologists, and professionals from different areas, taking into account the assumptions of Carl Gustav Jung 's analytical psychology and Jungian mythology, thus providing another insight about aging, expanding the study of this subject, still so unknown. The orixás are here seen as archetypal models, forms of aging, that point to the process of individuation described in the work of Jung. In the light of African mythology and analytic psychology, there is an interrelation between the themes, bringing another conception about aging.