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This paper presents the meaning of the experience of motherhood as a mystical sense, relating to motherhood feminine spirituality. For that, theoretically discourses the themes of Shadow and the numinosity feminine principle of motherhood, the symbolic and religious notions of the feminine mystique and the archetypal imagery of the religious dimension of motherhood, using the assumptions of the analytical approach of Jung's psychology. Thus by observing the strong Christian influence in Western culture, affirmed by the scientific literature on the subject, the Marian model of motherhood is studied, as well as what can be symbolic and what can be diabolic in the experience of motherhood for the contemporary woman. Finally, this paper presents a discussion of motherhood as an experience to archetypal woman, expressed through symbols and providing integration and expansion of self consciousness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The coherence of the scientific study in the natural sciences itself base in the logical one established in the sensible empirical observation. However, the pre sent, subjective reality in the religious experience and the psychological experience, by his nature in itself is not capturable by the organs of him feeling, lacking own approaches for its inquiry. Like this, from the studies of Almeida and Lotufo net weight, Ávila, Hick, Jerez, James, Milbank, Paiva, Rosenzweig, Strauss, Valle and Vergote, this work does a theoretical revision and discusses the Social Psychology of the Religion and the problem in the study and researches of the human subjectivity, considering so much the question of the truth how much of these categories as problem of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]