Jungian psychology perspectives on religion

It is observed that the phenomenon of religion is something extremely complex and many areas of academic knowledge have long been trying to understand it without, however, exhausting it. Among the different areas, psychology has been present in these attempts to understand with its various theoretical references. In the various ramifications of psychology, the Jungian theoretical perspective has been shown with a privileged interface and interesting key to understanding, very productive in relation to religion. However, this psychological theory has been superficially misunderstood as a psychological theory unilaterally in favor of religion - which is definitely not true. Therefore, through an attempt to elucidate certain Jungian concepts and conceptions about the psyche, this article aims to point out not only the epistemological position of neutrality of this theory but also to present the psychological importance of religion as a human psychological creation that contributes, for negative and sometimes positively, to the process of psychological growth known as individuation