Trajetória biográfica e escolha profissional: um olhar da psicologia analítica

Abstract

From C.G. Jung’s account of his school years and his process of choosing a career in Medicine, described in his biography ‘Memoirs, Dreams, Reflections’, it is possible to extract categories of analysis that are still relevant today in career guidance processes. Taking this narrative as a starting point, this research analyzed accounts of life trajectories of undergraduate students at PUC/SP, to identify subjective experiences symbolically experienced by them, which influenced their career choices. To this end, qualitative data collected through an online questionnaire and a semi-structured interview with these students were analyzed. The accounts were analyzed to identify symbolic expressions in their trajectories, especially those related to the possibilities and limits that impacted the professional choice, based on certain biographical milestones, and discussed based on theoretical subsidies from Analytical Psychology. In general, it concluded that professional choice is a decision that involves existential issues, such as one's own subsistence, family relationships, social status and personal fulfillment, in the context of adolescence tasks. The results allow to understand professional choice as a symbolic milestone in the constitution of identity and in the process of individuation of the subject of the choice and, thus, offer contributions to the work of psychologists in professional guidance processes