Dialogue between traditional indigenous knowledge and analytical psychology: a sketch for a re-enchantment of the world

Abstract

This work aims to establish a dialogue between the indigenous worldview and analytical psychology to understand how this interlocution can contribute to “re-enchant” the world. The study assumes that despite the evident material and technological progress, the structures of the western model based unilaterally on reason prove to be bankrupt and sterile in responding to the demands of contemporary man. To achieve the proposed objective and within the panorama of exploratory research, a bibliographic review was used to enable further deepening. As a result, it presents the approach of analytical psy- chology to two aspects of the indigenous cosmo- vision: the notion of Good Living in an integrative look at the soul of the world and the symbolic experience present in myths, rites, and dreams.