RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE: A Jungian Perspective on the Denial of the Other
Religious intolerance; Analytical Psychology; shadow; projection; religion.
The Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil of October 5, 1988, guarantees religious freedom and criminalizes discriminatory practices based on prejudice. Even so, recent data from the National Human Rights Ombudsman (Dial 100) indicate the persistence of religious intolerance in the country, with a greater incidence against religions of African origin. Given this panorama, this work proposes to understand religious intolerance beyond legal and social aspects, from the perspective of Carl Gustav Jung's Complex Psychology. In this perspective, the phenomenon of religious intolerance is interpreted as a distortion of the subjective and nebulous religious experience, associated with the projection of the personal and collective shadow, and, at the same time, with the deformation of an authentic singularity of the religious function. The analysis articulates a psychological reading according to the historical logic of the negation of the other, as discussed by Tzvetan Todorov; Methodologically, it presents a bibliographic research with a systematic review combined with documentary analysis of official data from the Brazilian government and academia, interpreted through the theoretical and practical epistemology of the work of Carl Gustav Jung, with incursions into the illustration of the Bio-Psycho-Social: Values Spherical Graph (GEV-bps).