This thesis is designed to determine the impact of the archetype of the Great Mother on the plot, characterizations, and interpersonal relationships in three contemporary films. Chapter I describes the elements and applications of the archetype and the Jungian analysis employed in the study. Chapter II details the phases of the Great Mother archetype and discusses Jung's process of individuation and how the Great Mother controls this quest. Chapters III, IV, and V focus on The Heretic, Network, and Looking for Mr. Goodbar respectively. Chapter VI summarizes the existence and power of the archetype in the films and postulates that the image of women in film may be stereotyped due to the Great Mother archetype.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Majori Fonseca Claro.pdf: 4862486 bytes, checksum: 7dee93fd53acd11b130f2885d4d7586e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The main goal of this research is to accomplish a comparative analysis between the character Baba-lagá, who appears in fairytales of the Slav folklore, and Cuca, a folkloric character from Luso-Brazilian culture, also present in lullabies, literary fragments, religious festivals and in Monteiro Lobato s book, O Sací. Leaving the premises of the Russian formalist Vladimir Propp, we analyze morphologically the creation of the characters in his narrative, as well as tracing their ritualistic origins. Based on the psychological concepts of Carl Gustav Jung, and his followers, we are looking for a symbolic understanding of these two sorceresses. The hypothesis proposed of similarity is that they are rooted on the same archetypal and hystorical ground, in the way that both are representatives of maternal images in its terrible form, and that has its origins in rituals of the sacred and profane. For the differences found we discussed the hypothesis of an inexhaustible manifestation of the archetype as an image and of cultural diversity. Throughout the research we can confirm these hypotheses by analyzing Monteiro Lobato s book and by reflecting on the characteristic features of the literary genres in which these sorceresses fall, concluding that if fairytales and lullabies were to resonate with their narrators voices, through shared experiences from around the world, in the field of modern literary art this reflection would pass into the metalinguistic and the text would gain, from the form, the capacity to consciously contribute to the reformulation of the world it mirrors / O objetivo desta pesquisa é realizar uma análise comparativa entre a personagem Baba- Iagá, presente nos contos de magia do folclore eslavo, e a Cuca, figura do folclore lusobrasileiro, presente também nas cantigas de ninar, fragmentos literários, procissões religiosas e no livro O Saci, de Monteiro Lobato. Partindo das premissas do formalista russo Vladimir Propp, analisamos morfologicamente a atuação das personagens nas narrativas, bem como empreendemos um rastreamento de suas origens ritualísticas. Baseados nos conceitos psicológicos de Carl Gustav Jung e seus seguidores, buscamos a compreensão simbólica dessas duas feiticeiras. A hipótese proposta para as similaridades é que elas se enraízam num mesmo solo arquetípico e histórico, na medida em que ambas são representantes de imagos maternas em sua face terrível , e que têm suas origens nos rituais sagrados e profanos. Para as diferenças encontradas, lançamos a hipótese da inesgotabilidade da manifestação do arquétipo como imagem e da diversidade cultural. No decorrer da pesquisa, pudemos comprovar essas hipóteses e, por meio da análise do livro de Monteiro Lobato, refletir sobre os traços característicos dos gêneros literários nos quais essas feiticeiras se inserem, concluindo que, se nos contos de magia e das cantigas de ninar ressoam vozes narradoras que compartilham experiências sobre o mundo, na arte literária moderna esta reflexão passa a ser também metalinguística e o texto literário ganha, desta forma, a capacidade de contribuir conscientemente para a reformulação do mundo que espelha