Thesoulandthe earth: reflections on the relationship between psychology and nature

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to propose a reflection based on questions that revolve around the relationship of psychology, more specifically as proposed by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, in his relationship with the conception of nature, this issue has been accompanying me for some time and now the opportunity has arisen to try to systematize some ideas that have emerged over the years. These reflections are just some initial ideas and the attempt to clarify something that has been posing itself as an issue throughout my studies of Jungian theory. In order to try to make the text as didactic as possible and present Jungian thought, I used a series of quotations from Jung himself, some not extensive, so that the reader can have contact with the ideas that inspire me in the course of this reflection. After discovering the book “The Nature has a Soul” (Sabini, 2007), a compilation of references taken from Jung's work on the theme, I saw that it was feasible to move in this direction, I partially followed the references and comments made by the author to present this work in the most focused and didactic way possible. I hope that the reader can glimpse Jung's thought and speech throughout the text and that this is a provocation for further studies, feel inspired as I was by the perception of the whole that is present in his work.