Símbolo, mito e interpretação da passagem para a vida adulta

• Main Author: Olga Sodré
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2014-07-01
• Series: Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia
• Subjects: Myth; Generation's conflict; Dynamic of identity-alterity; Way to recognition; Adult's world; Polis; Transgression.
• Online Access: http://pepsic.bvsalud.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-52672007000100002&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt

This article presents the children's relationship with parents, at the passage to adult's life, through the Titans and Olympus creation's myth, drawing the historic-cultural process brought into play at generation's succession. Focusing the identity – alterity's dynamic along the family conflict's unrolling, it underlines the close interlace between psychological development, culture and social life. It paints a way of transforming this conflict until arriving to the mutual recognition and the opening of the personal, familiar and public space. Trying to recuperating myth's contribution to the wholeness of language's meaning, at contemporary world, it puts together the philosophical and psychological efforts to deepen the symbolic language used by myth to express the parents and children's conflict. It draws the radical transformation of the children's universe and the difficulties to cross to the adults' world, to accede to the parents' positions, and to enter to the polis' life. It analyzes the problem of transgression and the dark and obscure side of this conflict, indicating the possibilities of its transformations.