Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LAÍS MENDES DE SOUZA VIEIRA SALES

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LAÍS MENDES DE SOUZA VIEIRA SALES
DATE: 05/03/2026
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Plataforma Google Meet da UFRRJ
TITLE:

The Good News of Ruth: An Expression of Cultivation and the Reinvention of Life in the Company of the Sacred Feminine.

KEY WORDS:

psychological rebirth; Jungian psychology; sacred feminine; Book of Ruth; biblical anthropology.

PAGES: 81
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUBÁREA: Psicologia Social
SPECIALTY: Papéis e Estruturas Sociais; Indivíduo
SUMMARY:

This dissertation investigates the phenomenon of psychological rebirth from the perspective of Carl Gustav Jung’s Analytical Psychology, taking the biblical Book of Ruth as a symbolic–methodological axis for understanding the Sacred Feminine in Judeo-Christian mythology and in everyday life. Grounded in Jung’s essay “On Rebirth,” the study emphasizes the notion of renewal (renovatio) as a central experience in the process of individuation and as a source of personal and collective transformation. The research adopts Jung’s synthetic–constructive method, based on symbolic amplification, active imagination, and narrative capacity, understanding the written or spoken word as a mediator in the cultivation of the soul. Structured in a multipaper format, the dissertation establishes an interdisciplinary dialogue between Jungian Psychology and Biblical Anthropology in order to investigate three essential structures of psychological rebirth: narrative capacity, the servant-suffering ego, and cooperativity (love). Within this framework, the narrative of Ruth is not used merely as an object of analysis but as a symbolic matrix that illuminates the method itself and guides a sacred reading of processes of suffering, transition, and personal and collective psychological rebirth. The figure of Ruth reveals the relational and numinous character of the anima and expresses a form of individuation that unfolds in companionship, through bonds of shared transformation. By proposing a reading of the Judeo-Christian myth grounded in the archetypal image present in the Book of Ruth, this study seeks to contribute—through Analytical Psychology—to a broader dialogue with the human sciences, especially contemporary clinical psychology, offering a symbolic understanding of individual and collective psychological rebirth rooted in the experience of ordinary life as a sacred space of individuation.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1226849 - NILTON SOUSA DA SILVA
Interno - ***.480.675-** - RICARDO DE QUEIROS BATISTA RIBEIRO - UFRRJ
Externo ao Programa - 1533038 - MARCOS JOSE DE ARAUJO CALDAS - UFRRJExterno à Instituição - LUCAS MERLO NASCIMENTO
Externa à Instituição - Lidice Meyer Pinto Ribeiro
Externa à Instituição - SONIA MARIA BUFARAH TOMMASI