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DISSERTATIONS - 2007
Imago Dei: the image of a concept: a study of the formation of the Imago Dei concept in the work of C.G.Jung
João Bezinelli
Advisor: Ceres Araújo
Key-words: imago Dei, unconscious, Jungian psychology, libido.
Abstract: The aim of this work is an understanding of C. G. Jung’s concept of the Imago Dei, throughout its development, since Jung’s first ideas expressed in “The Zofingia Lectures” in 1896, to the publication of the book “Psychology of the Unconscious” in 1912. The study of Jung’s thought during this period of time allows the observation of the development of the concept of the unconscious and of the libido, as well as its constructive dynamics through religious symbols, which points to the epistemological need for a later concept of Self and its representation on the Imago Dei. The following of these ideas that contributed and led to the formation of the Imago Dei, demonstrates that it is, by its very nature, conceptual and necessarily paradoxical from its beginning.
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