Jung at the crossroads or reading Jung from Exu

Abstract

This paper proposes a reading of some aspects of Jung’s work based on the orisha Exu and the notion of the crossroads, understood as an epistemological reference for an expansion of analytical psychology. Reading Jung through Exu means proposing complex and contemporary reflections on analytical psychology, expanding therapeutic possibilities and socio-historical analysis. Exu is a decolonizing principle that doubts orthodoxies, confronts stagnation and destabilizes Eurocentric worldviews. Communication, movement, dynamism, creativity and transformation are elements common to Exu and analytical psychology. Unconscious, shadow and transcendent function are some of the Jungian concepts worked on in dialogue with the Exu principle.