Echo’s calling: listening to silenced voices

Abstract

The present study aims to pay attention to silenced voices. By surveying studies in Analytical Psychology about the mythological figure of Echo and in Literary Studies that correlate silencing and psychology, we sought to understand what leads to imposed silencing. It was possible to understand that looking at Echo and the Other through hegemonic lenses places them in a position of little worth and value, something that also appeared in discourse of resistance and in testimonial narratives in the field of Literature, especially when the encounter with the Other seems to be threatening.