Jung y la baraja gitanaUn análisis de los símbolos arquetípicos de las cartas

Abstract

The objective of this research study is to propose an archetypal analysis of the symbols which appear in the gypsy card deck; the reason for this approach is to find if the meaning of the primordial symbols, which are currently very strange and distant to modern man, allow “access” to the unconscious—that is, if it is a language of the unconscious as dreams and other forms brought by psychoanalysis and complex psychology are. The foundations and fundamental pillars of analytical psychology are the symbolism and the theory developed by Carl Gustav Jung. About the symbolism we have carried out an extensive bibliographical study that includes numerous and diverse authors. Of special relevance has been the consultation of the Dictionaries of symbols . Final ly, we have reviewed the bibliography in Spanish of C.G. Jung, with regard to the symbolism, in Complete Work, Trotta edition, in 18 volumes, edited by the C.G. Foundation. Jung, and faithfully translated from the original in German by L. Montiel, G. Wasserziehr and others. In the part that refers to the history of the Cards Deck and how developed the cartomancy and the history of Mll. Lenormand were given by bibliographic searches in different libraries, physical and virtual, directed towards the identification of the way the story unfolded until the point of the card deck receive the name of Baraja Gitana...