I LEARNING OF THE SELF IN CLARICE
THE PRESENCE OF THE MYTHOLOGICAL ARCHETYPE OF APHRODITE IN THE BOOK OF PLEASURES
Keywords:
Clarice Lispector, Uma aprendizagem, Livro dos prazeres, Afrodite, arquétipo mitológico, deusa mitológica, Deusa VenusAbstract
This article presents an innovative reading that mixes mythology, literature and psychoanalysis to reveal the influence that the archetype of the goddess of beauty and love of Greco-Roman mythology, Aphrodite, exerts on the search for love and self-discovery of the character Lori, in An apprenticeship or the book of pleasures (1969), by Clarice Lispector. Therefore, we will analyze some literary resources explored by the writer in the construction of her character, such as epiphany and the search for identity, as well as in her approach to the animus - Jungian concept - by the figure of Ulysses. We will also discuss how the female archetype has the ability to clear an internal process to achieve the expansion of consciousness. This interpretive reading weaves a network of connections with the theory of CG Jung (1875 – 1961), critics of Clarician literature and Jungian interpreters, among them: Benedito Nunes (1989), Olga de Sá, Robert Johnson (1996), Jean Shinoda Bolen (1990), and James Hillman (1981), in order to demonstrate at what point the connection with a mythological archetype can open new keys for interpreting the figure of both the woman in Clarice's work and the contemporary woman.