Véu e máscara : uma perspectiva jungiana de leitura de Até que tenhamos rostos, de C. S. Lewis

Abstract

This work is an analysis of the novel Till We Have Faces: a myth retold (1956), considered the most mature, although little known, work of the British writer C. S. Lewis. My purpose is to present a perspective for the reading of the novel and for the perceiving of the narrator-protagonist's personality according to the Jungian theory of the Map of the Soul. I therefore observe the path of self-knowledge she goes through, seeking to identify the parts of her soul that lead her actions, thoughts and narrative choices throughout central moments of the story. In this sense, I observe, in the analysis, the formal and diegetic presentation of constituent factors of the protagonist's identity and personality, such as her name, her face and her loves, comparing them to the conceptions of Persona, Shadow, Ego and Animus by C. G. Jung explained by Murray Stein in Jung: Map of the Soul: An Introduction (1998). Allied to Jungian theory, I also use the formulations on the nature of love, by C. S. Lewis, present in The Four Loves (1960). Based on these reflections, I associate the main parts of the book with different aspects of Jung's theory, understanding them as unveilings of the soul and face that we try to see.