Kronos and his daughters: a reading of GAD’s phenomenon through complex psychology
Key-Words: Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Liquid Modernity; Complex Psychology; Greek Mythology.
The present work aims to establish a dialogue withing three fields of knowledge: sociology, complex psychology and Greek mythology. The chosen trajectory for its development presents the concept of liquid modernity described by the Polish sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017), with the theoretical and practical epistemological field of the complex psychology, which was elaborated and developed by Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961); it will be starting from the Greek mythology and focusing on the mythical interweaving in the triad: Kronos, Hermes and Hestia, in order to identify the movement of these characters archetype’s content from collective unconsciousness to personal unconsciousness. This path is justified by the fact that Mythology is one of the knowledges used by Carl Gustav Jung to elaborate the theorical and practical fields of his psychology works. Therefore, the resource of the mythological dimension interweaving will serve to understand and describe the constitution of the liquid modernity, and expose how it can favour the occurrence of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). On this context, according to the spatial and timeless dimension of the unconsciousness, and due to the ontological dimension of a mythology, GAD’s presence will be observed on female youth with the age range between 20 and 35 years old, through the analysis of an electronic questionnaire, applied to 135 young people, in which 70 of them are Maricaenses; remarking, as well, a clinical study case; both will emphasize the research at the city of Maricá, located on Rio de Janeiro state’s cost, in Brazil – at the current time of the first quarter of the XXI century. In order to, later on, go from the collective unconscious to the personal unconscious to comprehend, clarify and contribute to the public politics of Maricá’s/RJ city; untangling, as well, the biopsychosocial cords that, when interwoven, created a contemporary GAD’s net – and, in that sense, elaborate a transdisciplinary project as means of intervention so the maricaense youth female group can envision and forge an way out towards mental health, based on a new configuration and potentiality of those same cords’ psychic energy.