Decipher Me or I'll Devour You

This book is the translation, updated and enhanced, of the Portuguese book "Decifra-me ou te Devoro"; translation and updates made by the author himself. The Portuguese book was launched in 2019, February, and it was written in 2002 in its first version. The book deals with some key concepts in Complex Psychology (also called Analytical Psychology, the work of Carl Gustav Jung), shedding light on part of the Oedipus Myth that is not so usually observed by readers of the story; it also works on the idea of an ethics of self-development, which the author would prefer to call "conscious individuation." It encourages the study of the personality taking, as a point of departure, the figure of the Sphinx and the Enigma that it poses to the development of the psyche. The author is a psychologist and a lawyer in Brazil, among other activities. Contemporary man decipher puzzles, from an intellectual point of view, very easily. Many children, listening to the myth of the Sphinx that devoured so many in the time of Oedipus, could respond simply to the enigma, after a few moments of reflection. Puzzles of mystical, mysterious, devouring and profoundly symbolic figures are not solved by, simply, relegating them to the field of intellectual curiosity; and, therein, lies the inevitability: it is that Oedipus did not shy away from the enigma, but he never knew that, by accepting it, he only fulfilled his inexorable destiny, long predicted by the gods. Unhappiness is generally related to the lack of depth with which the subject treats his own life, and opportunities to change this situation are available at all times, although they seem enigmatically hidden, hidden as if they were sphinxes of everyday life: statues covered with an eternal veil that, when raised, may turn out to be denser than they seemed at first. This book characterizes that situation and suggests ways to address it. Next, the author plans to launch about ten books in Complex Psychology dealing with themes related to self-knowledge, science fiction, number and time, matter and psyche.