De Penélope a Atalanta - o processo de individualização em Yêda Schmaltz

Abstract

Under a jungian approach. this work inten­ds to analyse, in a special way, two literary pieces by Yêda Schmaltt -A alquimia dos nós (The al­chemy of the knots) and Ara/ama -books of poems whicb carry much influeoce of the swiss psychologist. Jung. This analysis is particularlly concemed wi­lh two mytical charactcrs strongly present throu­ghout the author's work -'Penelope and Atalanta - true archetypical pallems of women in diffcrenl stages of their psycbological maturing. Tllrough lhe performance of lhese two my­lhological antilhetis mO<lels, one can observe lhe uprise of women, in lhousands and lhousands of years,in lheir "process of individuation", hindde­red so many times. Pcnelope tums lo be lhe ar­chetypical imagc of lhe woman who has not in­corporaled lhe animus in herself, while Atalanta, a competitive one, represents lhe woman who has incorporated in herself lhat animus, finally com­pleting, in a satisfactory way, her process of psy­chological maturation.