Abstract:
This thesis presents a discussion about the spirituality of the contemporaneous world. It begins with a bibliographic review in the field of Humanist Psychology, centered on authors such as Rogers, Maslow, Frankl, Assagioli and mainly Carl Gustav Jung, creator of Analytical Psychology, associating them to theologians such as Otto Rudolf, Leloup, Tauler and Grün. Greater emphasis is given to Jung because of his postulates about symbolic expression through expressive plastic activities which, according to him, would lead to individuation, also called self-realization by other psychologists, or yet, the encounter with the Numinous, the Imago Dei, from Theology. Following this, the works of Vincent Van Gogh are analyzed as representatives of his psychic suffering, as are the works of Wassily Kandinsky, considered as a way to access his spirituality. Finally, these theories of Psychology and of Theology are directed toward the practice of Art Therapy with Jungian substantiation and its capacity to lead human beings to individuation or to the encounter with the person’s higher spirituality through the recovery of two case studies, one of them of this author herself and her confrontation of metanoia.
