Os bastidores arquetípicos da Ópera do malandro

Abstract

This paper analyses the archetypes of the malandro and of the feminine that are present in Chico Buarque’s Ópera do Malandro, from the point of view of Carl Gustav Jung’s analytical psychology, forming relations with the anthropological basis of the imaginary, by Gilbert Durand, with the Greek mythology and with gender cultural studies. Besides, it investigates regional aspects that are attached to the Lapa neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s, the time when the theater play takes place. Thus, the present study defends that the psychic dynamic is constantly being transformed by the human capacity in creating analogies. And also in giving meaning or a symbolic representation to all the things. This way, showing that the more flexible the individual’s ego is, the more internal elements he will have to promote a life filled with creativity and mental health to himself and to the environment he lives in.