A Trajetória heróica em A Correnteza, de Alina Paim : uma leitura mítico-psicológica

Abstract

This study focuses on the heroine's mythical-psychological trajectory in the romance A correnteza, by Alina Paim, based on the hero's and heroine's mythical trajectories proposed by Joseph Campbell and Annis Pratt, as well as on the psychological implications of it as collective unconcious archetypes presented by Carl G. Jung and Erich Neumann. As the main character lives its individuation process, a tourtuous path that implies introspection, self analysis, symbolic death and rebirth, we could notice other myths that sustein the plot. Between them, we highlight, Medea's myth, based on Olga Rinne's view of the topic. We concluded that after going down her memories and estimate wins and loses, the heroine illuminated by the real Self becames an Old Wise.