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- Title
El ojo interior o la imaginación en Ignacio de Loyola y Carl Gustav Jung: una interpretación espiritual.
- Authors
López Hortelano, Eduard
- Abstract
This article investigates the meaning of the image in the spiritual experience of Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) and Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). This is the framework that moved the investigation, limiting its objective not to Jung's psychoanalytic theories, but to the comparative study of two symbolic images between the two: Christ and the serpent. First, by exploring the documentary sources in Ignacio de Loyola and in Jung's Red Book. Following the comparative and analytical method, we have narrowed down the terms on the meaning of the inner eye and surreal or symbolic images. In second place, we have entered into the comparative study of the figures of Christ and the serpent. The result has been that the Autobiography is built under two parameters: "His eyes were opened a little" (8-10), a common thread until "the eye opening" (30-31). This progressive opening of the eyes weaves the discernment of the motions that accompany the arc of these numbers: to look at oneself (8-27), at the mysteries of faith (28-29) and at Christ (30-31), where the snake acquires a strong symbolic value. The conclusions of our research are as follows: 1. The three images--the serpent, the mysteries of faith and Christ--reveal a path towards the Christi form in both Ignatius and Jung, to reveal the deceptions. 2. Ignatius and Jung exercise in the image. Both, despite their differences, join that tradition that recovers the meaning of life as a spiritual exercise. 3. Assuming one's own life and leading it to the Christi form are two of the exercises of those who look at Christ, because through the art of figuring and figuring oneself, these persons know themselves internally and adopt the Christi form: the occurrence of God and the emergence of their inner selves.
- Subjects
IGNATIUS of Loyola (Book); IMAGINATION; PSYCHOANALYTIC theory; SPIRITUAL exercises; IGNATIUS of Loyola; JESUS Christ; JUNG, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961; SPIRITUAL life; COMPARATIVE method; DECEPTION; COMPARATIVE studies; AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Publication
Theologica Xaveriana, 2022, Vol 72, p1
- ISSN
0120-3649
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11144/javeriana.tx72.oiiil