C. G. Jung e o Caçador das Sombras: um diálogo entre ciência e espiritualidade

Abstract

The present work proposes a dialogue between science and spirituality, from the analysis and understanding of the literary content of the album Temple of Shadows of the band Angra in light of the analytical psychology of psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1885- 1961). For this, it describes the way in which Jung investigates the human psyche; elucidates the way he understands spirituality from a scientific look; demonstrates a spirituality present in rock'n'roll and heavy metal; and performs a case study from a jungian look, phenomenological and hermeneutic, of the literary content of the album Temple of Shadows of the band Angra. The gradual dissociation between scientific and spiritual knowledge beginning at the end of the Middle Ages favored the emergence of an anthropocentric philosophy which, although it allowed mankind technological advances, eventually removed it from its spiritual essence and nature. For a rapprochement between science and spirituality, a dialogue that seeks mutual understanding between the two fields of knowledge is needed. To this end, Jung investigates psychological phenomena that aspire to spirituality in a scientific and interdisciplinary way, in dialogue with mythology, religion, theology, neurosciences, medicine, physics, philosophy, etc. In the scope of music rock'n'roll and its subgenre heavy metal, the spirituality also makes present. This is the case of the Temple of Shadows album by the Brazilian band Angra, which tells the saga of a character: the Shadow Hunter, a 12th-century knight who, after being wounded in battle, ends up meeting and marrying a Muslim woman before following his fate prophesied by an old Rabbi and a Gypsy prostitute. The character has a psychological impact on revelations and events that go beyond his capacity for rational understanding and that deeply modify his way of acting, thinking and feeling the external world and himself. Both Shadow Hunter and Jung adopt attitudes of understanding and tolerance that enable dialogue and understanding between fields of knowledge that are split apart during the periods of their lives.