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DISSERTATIONS - 2008
Masculine pathological jealousy: reflex ions from Jungian point of view
Valéria Centeville
Advisor: Durval de Faria
Key words: Jungian Psychology, masculine pathological jealousy, movie interpretation.
Abstract: The objectives of this study are to comprehend how male pathological jealousy expresses itself in a patriarchal culture and also to understand psychological aspects involved in the dynamics of such disturbance, especially the emotional complexes. The bibliographical research has revealed the existence of many essays linking male jealousy to violence against women particularly in a domestic context. Definitions of jealousy from important authors such as Adler (1967), Alberoni (1988), Freud (1976), Klein and Riviere (1975) and the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-IV - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (1994) have been researched. Books and articles of Jungian and neo-Jungian scholars were also examined, only to find Carlos Byington (2006), the creator of the Symbolic Psychology, description of jealousy. Still based on this theoretical approach to male pathological jealousy I came across Grinberg’s essay (2000). In the last stages of the bibliographical research specific attention was given to how the term “jealousy” was accounted for throughout Carl Gustav Jung’s work. To illustrate such a condition certain films were considered and selected, Claude Chabrol´s 1994 production L’enfer being the most representative. It was interpreted based on Jung’s Analytical Psychology and on the information pertaining to the patriarchal culture. Allowing us to conclude that the characteristics and emotions most commonly associated with the male pathological jealously are: power and possession, the desire for dominion over the loved one, love and rivalry, fear of loss, exclusive love and feelings of inferiority; the inability to surmount the Oedipus complex as a structure, the presence of a maternal and/or paternal complex, the repression of the feminine principle and the resulting psychic disequilibrium are the constituent factors associated with the male pathological jealousy. This kind of affection is generally related to paranoia. I propose to consider the hypothesis that culture and patriarchal values, when unilateral, intensify pathological jealousy since what’s most revealing of the psychotic jealous extreme behavior is precisely the need to control others and maintain dominance over them.
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