A Casa da Madrinha: the individuation process in Lygia Bojunga's work

Abstract

Consecrated among the most outstanding brazilian writers of children's literature, Lygia Bojunga's narrative intertwines the social theme with the psychological conflict and the process of maturing of the protagonist characters. In other words, elements of the real serve as a basis for fantasy, enabling various ways of reading the stories created by the writer. In this sense, this article brings a theoretical-analytical approach, in which the objective was to analyze the work A Casa da Madrinha, by Lygia Bojunga (2015), from a jungian reading. Alexandre's journey, the central character, is revealed as a symbol of the individuation process. The Analytical Psychology of Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was used as an instrument to reveal the symbolic, the mythological of the writer's work, that is, for the interpretation of the fantasy space of the narrative and the process of individuation of the protagonist character of the story. In Lygia Bojunga's literature, imagination does not appear as a factor of alienation from the real, but as a fundamental process of transformation and mobilization of life, where the character Alexander, in the experience of his individuation process, was able to resignify his outer and inner living spaces.